IBM reviews

Gradual replacement of on-shore with off-shore resources. Cost and and number of billable hours appears to be their number concern. Your job can be eliminated at any time if they no longer need you or you become an expense to the company. There are a few unfair practices that I've seen while I was working at IBM, such as deferral of vacation to boost their productivity ratio, reduction of base salaries by 15%, reclassification to lower band. Management is not always supportive. On the average, you have the find another position every 2 years.

The company can be somewhat management-heavy at times. Sometimes it appears that there are levels of middle management that exist simply to keep people busy. This seems to be especially the case in some of the older organizations that have been producing the same or similar products for many years. This tends to create a lot of politics, especially when dealing with people in different management chains who seem to be getting a completely different vision for the direction of the project. Good first-line managers shield their employees from this, while bad ones can make it nearly impossible to be productive.