Company: IBM
Date: 2010-03-24
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Global Technology Services Sales Specialist
Pros: - Work life balance is amazing (they post "Attendance does not equal Productivity" on their Intranet)
- from a Process standpoint, IBM uses industry best practices and this is apparent when you leave and go to a smaller company
- the logo on the card commands respect and gets you in any C-level door when you want to sell them
Cons: - It's yet an old boys club where majority of the Executives are older, Caucasian males
- 30% of senior executives are females (once again mainly Caucasian)
- 2% of executives are visible minorities even though they have a target of 19% but they have no action plan stating that the "cream will rise to the top"
- base pay is VERY low compared to the industry - especially if you start at IBM after University as the most you can get when you get promoted is about 10%, regardless of how much additional responsibility you take on