Company: IBM
Date: 2015-07-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Start your career here, but then move on
Pros: Tremendous opportunity to learn about everything from technology to how industries work in great detail;  especially for marketeers, an inside view of the finest marketing machine in the world and how one company can create a market for something by articulating a new problem or a problem differently
Cons: Virtual employment is hard for millennials.  You have to work to stay in touch with your co-workers.  Loyalty only works one way...there are regular 'redistributions' of the workforce. And many are packaged out at one time.  Get used to it.  If you start your career at IBM, you have tremendous value elsewhere over time.  IBM's salesmanship at field level has taken a big hit over the last decade--the management keeps things far more tactical and short-term than strategic.  This has undermined customer account continuity and customer satisfaction.  The finest sales school in the biz is no longer.