Company: IBM
Date: 2009-05-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

IBM Global Services - great on your resume, but not a place to stay long term
Pros: - great to have on your resume
- there are a lot of VERY smart people working in GS
- pay is OK, benefits OK
- name recognition at accounts and during your job search
- lots of online training - lots of bleeding edge stuff in services, so you get a chance to learn about lots of new/different services technologies and processes
Cons: - way too bureaucratic
- I was a Services Sales Lead - I enjoyed the job, but there is huge overlap in the services offered by the other organizations (servers, storage, facilities, etc) - which led to lots of internal fighting about who owned what deal and who got what % of each deal
- VERY silo'd organizations
- like all large companies, lots of internal politics, and you tend to be pretty dependent on your manager - I had a pretty good one, so no complaints there
- internal processes kept changing and it got very dizzying in terms of what approvals you had to get from whom and when and the size of the deal
- I was just getting ready to call my manager to tell him I was going to start looking for another job within IBM when I got laid off
- if you REALLY want to work for IBM, I would say go for it, and if you don't mind it, then move around and try different jobs and organizations for the experience 
- VERY difficult to break into the larger accounts to get f2f with customers - I have 15+ years sales experience and I found it very frustrating getting in front of customer because of the multiple layers I would have to go through - I was getting ready to start applying for some Client Rep positions