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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,312 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      77% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,312 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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      107K reviews
      2.0
      Feb 9, 2009

      Great people, awful management.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Wide array of projects. Experts on almost any subject are available and helpful. IBM has a reputation for excellent which lends automatic respect to any outside contacts.

      Cons

      Constant reorganizations and layoffs. Organization is intended to protect senior managers turf, not promote efficiency. Respect for IBM is largely based on IBM's past behavior when product excellence was encouraged and employees were encouraged to develop deep expertise in subjects. Current IBM strategy is to minimize cost and produce mediocre products that are "good enough." Technical expertise is not valued by management. Successful IBMers learn to ride the wave of popular technology while doing little concrete work.

      1.0
      Feb 9, 2009

      Set your expectations low, really low and plan to move to a different company in a few years

      Advisory software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you are not ambitious and not passionate about your work, if you don't expect much in terms of professional respect, opportunities, fair compensation and fine with being layed off at any time, this might be a company worth considering.

      Cons

      IBM internal performance review rules promote meritocracy. You can work very hard, accomplish a great deal and still be given a bad or average performance rating just because you were not visible enough to the right people or simply because it was your time to take one for the team. Most employees I know of have given up on trying to improve anything in the products. People are in "survivor" mode - minimum effort for maximum benefit and don't stick your neck out. A lot of truly talented technical people have either left on their own or were layed off. People that seems to be staying behind are poor souls that are stuck at IBM for some reason, or those who play internal politics well.

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