IBM Project Manager reviews

I worked as a Project Manager at IBM Athens for more than 5 years. What I witnessed throughout my time there was consistent and deeply troubling. The SAP department in Athens operates more like a family business than a professional consulting firm. A significant portion of the team consists of relatives and personal connections of management. This is not speculation — it is an open secret within the department. These individuals are hired, protected, and promoted regardless of their skills or output. This situation creates multiple victims: - Fellow employees who do the actual work while relatives clock in and out without accountability — and worse, report back to management if you dare to complain - Business partners and clients who pay premium IBM consulting rates for resources that simply do not deliver - IBM itself, which ends up assigning additional consultants to cover the workload that the "protected" employees never deliver. When issues are raised internally, management closes ranks immediately. Feedback goes nowhere. Escalations are buried. The system is entirely designed to protect itself. If you are considering joining as an employee: performance means very little here if you are not part of the inner circle. You will carry others' workload and be blamed when things go wrong. If you are a company evaluating IBM Athens as an SAP partner: ask specifically who will be assigned to your project, validate their credentials independently, and build strict SLA accountability into your contract from day one.