Pros
the majority of FA's are your age fresh from graduating college so it is easy to make friends. Flex Friday
Cons
You will start as supplemental in most cases. If you are lucky you will get an easy desk where the FA before you isn't leaving the company and will actually train you on how to complete your work. Otherwise you will get someone who is out the door and you will get about 1 week of training and you will have no idea how to do your job. Your manager in most cases has no idea what your daily tasks are or specifics to your role. Then you will get promoted and it gets worse. They pile on more work with about a 1K bump in pay. This is the point most people leave. They are really good at giving you a ton of work knowing they can replace you with another college graduate. The turnover in the COE is unreal over 35%. the average person lasts a year and a half. Really its only that high because the people that have been there more than 3 yrs their spouse works at mayo and they are not moving. Be ready for a ton of work with no pay and no appreciation. Most likely you will start with 15-30 new hires and after 3 months half will have quit for better jobs. My advice is go in with the mindset that there is no career path here and use it as a resume builder. Always remember the COE is vastly different than IBM itself. It may fall under IBM but you are basically a cheap labor center from overseas. The COE is a cost effective center and it is ran as such.
