Company: IBM
Date: 2017-10-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Might be a good place to start your career but overall not a good place to work.
Pros: Impressive product portfolio depending on which technology you are selling.
Cons: Way to much mandatory training, supremely political, confusing business processes, engineering led sales team, tons of infighting, and terrible marketing messages.

Before you consider a sales position here get a real clear picture of the comp plan.  They will not tell you about their "Absolute" vs. "Leveraged" sales plans because then they will have to divulge you lose 18% of your base salary when they make you switch from one to the other.

IBM has a message that their technology is disruptive to various industries, but inside the company they  still do things "the IBM way"--which is to say they use outdated processes, tools, tracking systems.  Most times you spend your day filling out spreadsheets instead of using any of the internal systems.

Most managers are in the business of trying to get another job within the company so they are not focused on getting you the things you need and can't/won't help you if you need it.  Your pretty much on your own for all things.