Company: IBM
Date: 2017-04-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Sales - Cloud @ IBM
Pros: - as IBM is a huge conglomerate, you can have many different career experiences in one place.
- despite all the negative press, the company has a strong balance sheet and strong product margins, i.e. good stability and a cautious view on taking risk
- good benefits, though like most companies they pare back - 401k match (up to $16k annually), deferred comp for high income earners, low-cost medical.
- if you are good at your work, work/life balance is at least possible
Cons: - need to negotiate starting salary strongly - raises/promotions are very, very rare
- bonuses even on sales plans seem totally subjective and random
- 60% of your colleagues suck, and somehow the resource actions never seem to get those people
- near constant organizational and territory change disrupts client and partner relationships, a competitive disadvantage and leads to a lot of internal "self-promotion"