IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,206 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,206 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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4.0
Oct 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's so large there are many areas to move into if you want to grow your career. I'm working at another company now due to being a small layoff last year and I personally miss the structure. IBM had many of the processes down on how to work that many companies could learn from.

Cons

Can get lost within the corporate structure. Sometime very hard to get change through without red tape.

3.0
Oct 19, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility and work/life balance are the top things that keep me here. I have been with the company 20+ years and have built up 4+ weeks vacation, which is also nice. I took advantages of educational programs (offered in the past) and IBM paid for and helped me earn a degree. The old IBM was very good to work for, the new IBM will not give you one morsel more than they think they need to.

Cons

The downsides are the insiduous, and it seems that the norm is take aways and doubletalk. Basically promotions and meaningful raises, at least at the worker bee level, are as rare and far between. They always have a "believeable" reason why raises, bonuses and premiums are so low, yet executives continue to make sure things are structured in a way that does not effect them.

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