IBM reviews

In most of time, you will get lots of challenges from your client. How to change yourself to match them or how to persuade them is always a huge tradeoff you need to judge.

Because it is such a large company, it is not the sort of place where you will move up through the ranks very quickly. Although it is not the IBM of the olden days, there is still very much a management hierarchy, and getting promoted to a people manager role takes time. My biggest complaint would be around the company's sales strategy. There is a laser-like focus on the IBM "message," and as a result individual brands are not permitted to do their own advertising. The end result is a company with a set of great products that not one in the marketplace is aware of. It is very frustrating to see this as a sales rep, where you are selling products you can get excited about, but feel like you are being slowed down by IBM's own sales strategy.