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Elena Bajic
2006
3.4
Recommend to a friend
66%
Say this is a great place to work
65%
Proud to have on resume
78%
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
IBM GBS has a culture of excellence. People want to do good work and learn while doing so. They're ambitious for themselves and for their clients. People work hard and they want to have fun and have time off. There is a lot of pride in working for "Big Blue" because the brand has a meaning for people, though there are probably as many meanings as there are people working for the company. I think that IBM pride is what stands out most to me about the culture.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
It's a great employer brand to have on your resume. And, I enjoyed working for the company. I liked working with the biggest names in retail and CPG, learning about their businesses, learning new-to-me business processes and software systems, gaining exposure to people at all levels in client companies, from entry-level to C-level, working on a variety of projects and project types, the smart and interesting people I met and worked with who were my IBM colleagues and those who were my clients, gaining consulting skills and learning the business of consulting. I liked having the benefit of partnering *with* a business without being *in* it, so being able to see blind spots and possibilities where the clients could not because they were so much closer to it, whereas I could be more objective and be the advisor. That is my favorite part of consulting. And, IBM was a convenient place to work, in terms of the perks of a high-profile brand name, their budgets, and access to other resources (both material and intangible) were abundant, making it a little easier to live the consulting lifestyle. Overall I had a good experience working for IBM GBS.
Employee
Downstream, front for hocking IBM technology "stacks" invented by teams who are never talking to actual customers, priced as if poop is diamonds, and presented by people not incented to work together
Employee - Manager
Poor training received. Poor managerial oversight. Poor consulting methodologies. Poor client relations and client engagements established by sales and pre-sales teams.
Employee - Manager
Detached and self-absorbed.
Employee - Partner
Overall good market reputation but in general considered very big and slow to adjust to new market requirements.
Employee - Partner
Great employees - worked hard; too many layers of senior management = too much time on administrative efforts vs supporting clients.
Employee - Partner
Overall good company with large client base.
Employee - Partner
big company, can offer a lot, lots of leaders, sometimes difficult to find the appropriate resources
Employee - Partner
very bottom line focused.
Employee - Partner
overall pays well
Employee - Partner
Focused on the bottom line
Employee - Partner
Global reach and experience, opportunity to support different areas over time
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Employees are seen as expendable resources in order to meet top-level financial goals
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
self-serving leadership
Employee - Partner
Quarterly focused firm driven by spreadsheets. Low morale. Good have left or are leaving the company. Benefits being cut down repeatedly. Rampant employee dissatisfaction. Company focused on financial engineering its results instead of clients and employees.
Employee - Partner
They are managers, not leaders. Company run by "spreadsheet mafia"/ accountants. Leadership sets unrealistic targets which are set "top down" with no correlation to business units or ground reality. Financial engineering results to artificially keep stock price up is the name of the game- whether that means laying off people, buying back stock or laying off people a weeks/ days before their retirement to avoid paying pension.
Employee - Partner
The targets are set top down and have no correlation to ground reality or business unit's baseline from previous year. As such, for many years now, people have "not met targets" and have been given very little bonus. Every company provides stretch targets but IBM provides impossible targets that people know are unachievable.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Very good reputation
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Inclusive, Process based decisioning