Company: IBM
Date: 2010-02-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Storage Global Services Engineer
Pros: Global market place where business can take you to any continent in the world.  With the market being what it is it's nice to work for a company which has a global market place to play off of.  My skill set can be leveraged and picked up by project teams world wide.  Therefore there is little down time when looking for new projects to move to.
Cons: IBM is inward thinking and does not do well at focusing on what their customers want.  A perfect example of this is their Lotus Notes product line.  It's has 10 times the features of any e-mail client I've ever used and it's equally 10 times as hard to use.  IBM needs to simplify it's software and disk portfolio and focus on giving customers value out of the box on day one of ownership.  The days when product implementation and integration projects take years to complete are over (or should be for that matter).  IBMs competition knows this and has risen to the occasion. This is why IBM is losing in the storage sector.