Company: IBM
Date: 2020-06-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A great place to start a career in tech sales
Pros: The Summit Program is one of the few training programs that hires people with no experience, trains them and then places them into the field. IBM's willingness to invest in your early career is great. The relationships you make on the program are so important to your long-term career.
Cons: Constant layoffs that are not based on any objective metric. It's easy to get caught up in a layoff id you're on in the wrong business unit. There is a cloud of uncertainty that is always hovering above you in February and I've known top performers laid off because they were moved to a new manager that then needed to eliminate half of their team. This leads to constant change that makes taking vacations and developing a rhythm difficult