IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,059 total reviews)
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68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,059 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IBM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jul 14, 2015

Transformation

Recommend
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Pros

IBM is transforming itself, educating employees, being open to suggestions valuing Visual Design and Visibility stronger.

Cons

Bureaucratic as always. Hoping it will transform itself as well. Managers should keep the bureaucracy away from employees and redundant activities should be replaced.

4.0
Oct 31, 2014
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Pros

The local people management here in Germany is, what I have experienced, VERY good. The two first-line managers I have had here were both very understanding and interested in ME not in a working resource. I have always enjoyed enourmous freedom be it working hours, home office, or hacking side-projects. This was due to mutual trust. Good stuff. The fellow workers are very skilled to extremely skilled and the local people-to-people climate is usually pretty good. Work is more "development" than "research and development" as the sign in front of the house says. But there can be interesting research aspects every now and then. The actual kind of work you do, of course, depends a lot on the product you work on. But generally it is hard core IT and usually fun.

Cons

Top level management is focused on their bonus and sees you as an annoying costly resource. Management is done without a lot of sense of realism ("build the best product in the world in two days"). Dilbert comics are very commonly glued to office doors, that should say it all. Also colleagues in America and India are sometimes capable and often not. Pay is definitely not above average. Bonuses and all kinds of goodies are virtually non-existent, as soon as they cost money. Not infrequently, local managers pay for things (grill parties, e.g.) personally. For example, we had a wonderful team hiking weekend - payed by ourselves.

2.0
May 5, 2014

Lost their soul, greedy for profits, too much of middle management swamp

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Is an important player on the IT market, frontrunner in globalization. Good reputation. Flexible working conditions.

Cons

Lost moral by skipping respect for the individual (see layoffs) and for society (see tax avoidance). Trying to put processes everywhere, leading to bureaucracy and inhumanity. IBM was and is a US-based and US-culture led organization. Culture and Values seem to be lip-services (see middle management swamp).

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