Company: IBM
Date: 2009-04-09
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Working for IBM is a mixed a bag.  Brand name but low pay, no career path, and extremely matrixed selling environment.
Pros: Brand name, experience working for a large corporation, and resume builder.  IBM sales is highly regarded but in order to make more money you'll need to leave IBM.  The sales plans are not generous, and re-organizations and layoffs are envogue.
Cons: raise freezes, low compensation, no career path, extremely matrixed, and constantly changing management.  The IBM matrix requires you to have far too many sales cadences.  You'll spend most of your time reporting to layers management and mending internal IBM issues than selling.  Even so, working together as one IBM is a constant challenge as self interest among the brands, and pillars makes the selling process much more complex.  For such a large corporation, there is far too much finger pointing and not enough internal coordination/cooperation, which wastes far too much time.