Company: IBM
Date: 2012-11-19
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Outstanding Company - treating employees professionally
Pros: IBM institutes a philosophy for keeping its employees by offering them the opportunity to build career experience with the encouragement to move about the company.  Overall this works well although one needs to also cast a wide net which can take quite a long time.
Cons: My position pertained to selling the smarter commerce suite of applications which are well accepted in the market place.  If you are a seasoned sales person and truly do not like to cold call then you will fail.  IBM is NOT a marketing company and depends almost exclusively on each seller to build the field product buzz on their own.  You have 12 month to do that and make your numbers before your accounts are thrown back into the hat and you start almost from 0.