Company: IBM
Date: 2011-06-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Good place to start
Pros: Good company to start a career at. Average benefits.
Cons: Like any other multinational. Employees are fodder for the international business machine. A$$ kissers advance easily. Real talent often overlooked. 1st and 2nd line management usually not qualified. Stodgy, "Think" moving an elephant.
Take the job knowing you will leave in a few years. It's a good training ground but be ready to move on to move up. Sales rules. You'll do good there as long as you make the club but watch out for bum territory assignments if you are too successful. That's how they dump you. It is unspoken but you are not allowed to make too much in sales. Engineering is dead end, no different from other multinationals. Learn something and move on.