How do you say "I worked for [X company]."?


The context is you're casually telling a person where you've worked in the
past.

I was thinking something like: `IBMで働いた` or `IBMで仕事した`.

But it didn't seem right. In English, the conversation would go something
like:

> A: Where did you used to work?
>
> B: I've worked for IBM. And also, I've worked at Best Buy.




`〜で働いた` is fine for literally "worked at". But I more often hear `〜に[勤]{つと}める`
meaning "employed for/by 〜"; usually in the `〜ている` form ("am currently
employed for/by 〜"). In this case, I think you'd just use the simple past
tense.

> IBMに勤めたことがある。そして、BestBuyにも。

Also, see this post about a unique employment situation: [Employed by one
institution but work for
another](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/6157/78).

