IBM Client Engineer reviews

It's a very political organization, every year it seems the company takes a little bit away from employees. The compensation is below the industry average. IBM has a way of institutionalizing you to the IBM way, this can be dishearting for those the question the norm, eventually you have to make a decision on whether you can live without anything changing and becoming an IBMer or quit drinking the koolaid and find a new opportunity outside the company.

Not all people are treated equally - for example, sales people are generally treated with total disrespect, whereas consultants and holders of domain expertise are treated properly. When the client teams don't work together (more often than not) then you had better be in the stronger camp or you are toast. Expect to spend the best part of 30% of your time fighting your own organisation.