IBM

Benefits are great. If you're willing to travel and keep up with the demand to have your billing percentage up, you'll gain a lot of valuable experience. There's always room to learn new skills and apply them in a project.

Long hours depend on the assignment. Travel can wear you out, so look for opportunities within IBM to remain valuable and be billable. Depending on your assignment, work-life balance may not equate.

The biggest issue I've seen is hiring people and not providing adequate training before sending them on assignment to be billable. Instead of spending a week on onboarding, provide four weeks, depending on what they will be used for.

The extra three weeks would be used for classroom training to provide additional preparation before sending them into the field.