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IBM is a dumpster fire.
Avoid IBM.
- ex-IBMer
Too many to list here
Started at IBM right out of undergrad. Within a month I knew I needed to leave, but stuck it out because I had a signing bonus clawback clause if left before a year.
They can’t compete with AWS or Microsoft on product quality, and can’t compete with TCS or Cognizant on Price when it comes to any kind of technology work.
Any other kind of consulting work will be lost to Accenture or any of the Big 4 firms.
You’ll sit on the bench for 6+ months because there will literally be no project work in your entire practice, and then you’ll be asked to leave for under performing.
Comp is terrible. You won’t get any annual raises, and your bonus might be like $200. So, basically nothing.
The culture is a bunch of comfortable middle management types who don’t want to rock the boat and don’t want to work very hard, so any and every initiative will be slow and inefficient. (One pursuit I was part of needed something insane like 50+ signatures to get approved).
EY 1000 times out of 10, without any doubt. Your 5 year potential is exponentially higher (IBM is in the midst of another round of consecutive revenue and profit declines, when I left they had gone like 23 straight quarters of declining growth). The culture will be much more agile and ambitious, the comp will be better, and the project work will be more challenging and interesting (and it will exist! Imagine that!). No comparison in my book. EY wins any metric against IBM.
Go jackets! 🐝
I graduated from Tech too! Go jackets! Recruited at both IBM and EY. I just wanted to say - the role at IBM I was looking at was marketed as “consulting” but was really more about sales. If you are interested in technology agnostic consulting, I think EY would be a better fit. If you are interested in becoming really well versed in one or many specific technologies, IBM would likely be better.
Recent tech grad who just started at EY. Staffs at EY do not get a performance bonus (you’ll get a decent signing bonus) but from what I’ve gathered annual raise is at least 10% from Staff 1 to Staff 2 and probably around a similar amount once promoted to sr
Go jackets! I worked at ibm first job out of college and hated it. Don’t do it
This is really surprising considering the work IBM is doing in Watson area, cloud transformation etc
I don’t think you’ll find many exit opportunities with being a Watson expert.
Stay away from IBM. Bonus and raises are non-existent these days, not to mention IBM has major layoffs (in the thousands) at least twice a year. Layoffs also include young people and people who have been with the company fir a few years or less.
i love ey
This is super late but my first raise was 12.5% and my second raise was 25%. I am two years out of undergrad