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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,184 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,184 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
      1.0
      Sep 29, 2008

      Read this before you join IBM

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Name recognition on a resume. If you do join, don't stay long; a couple of years max, then move on to some other company with better prospects.

      Cons

      Incompetent upper management. Executives are more interested in driving the stock price up in the next quarter to line their pockets, than to plan for the company's long-term prospects. Most senior management is completely clueless on the technical front and rely on underpaid and overworked folks in the trenches to do all of the hard work. Powerpoint presentations are ubiquitous and long (100+ slides in a presentation are not unusual), and people spend months and months between pre-pre-reviews and pre-reviews before the final review.

      4.0
      Sep 29, 2008

      working at IBM

      Systems software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good growth opportunity available and good exposure to domain competency. The way the senior management guides the middle management is just stupendous. The flexibility in working hours add advantage to hire great talents through out the world. The employee friendly policies and open structure makes them feel empowered and the voice of concerns are acted upon immediately providing the employees with self satisfaction. Be it group events organized within the company, or official parties dinners, seminars, trainings, everything is so fun filled that one doesn't feel the pressure of performing. Hence we can say that performance comes naturally when the company is so friendly to their employees.

      Cons

      Low salary paid as compared to industry standards. Lack of awareness towards the society from the company might add a bad name to the company.

      2.0
      Sep 28, 2008

      IBM Global Services -- Mismanaged, too short-sided, and too geographically-disbursed to be efficient

      Delivery project executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits (health, vacation, etc.) are better than most companies, but don't expect perks. 401k matching is better than most other large tech companies. IBM promotes a work/life balance, which most managers actively encourage. Working from home is the de facto work arrangement for most non-technical job roles, including management.

      Cons

      There is zero budget for travel, training, additional software, and anything else outside your laptop and Lotus Notes. Senior Management agrees to deals that generate losses in the near-term and then ask account managers to furlough contractors to meet profit goals for the quarter. Contractors are used far too much and are treated as simple commodities and not human beings. Everyone works from home without video collaboration tools or a travel budget. No travel budget + country-wide teams = no team building. Most employees never meet their managers face-to-face. A manager I hadn't met before conducted my exit interview and advised her college-aged child to avoid IBM. Ethics battle between customer service and margin growth drives many good people out (including me).

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