IBM reviews

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

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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1.0
Sep 28, 2008
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Pros

There are many different areas in such a big organization. The people actually doing the work (versus management and Executives) are mostly very competent and cooperative. Workers are knowledgeable, driven and cooperate to get things accomplished often with mandated "free" overtime for the sake of productivity improvements. The productivity is not measured based on hours worked - only the cost of the salary, etc are accounted for. There is training and reasonable room for advancement at first. An okay place to start your career or work a short time before you are taken for granted.

Cons

Do not expect much in the way of ongoing compensation. The management philosophy appears to include: moving as much work as possible offshore, drive the people into the ground - they can be replaced, don't compensate well as the workers should be grateful to have a job, and at all costs maximize executive compensation. Layoffs are regular (or as they like to call them "Resource Actions") even when the company is announcing great accomplishments to shareholders. It is very difficult to get time or approval for ongoing professional training since the company is almost always in some sort of "cost freeze". It is not unusual to go years without being able to take a course. Expect any education to be on your own cost and on your own time. It can also be years without getting any raises. Their stated goal is pay a little above average for the industry. The management focus seems to be on how to cut benefits, rework the salary plans to the detriment of the workforce and in some cases implement salary cuts which are not offset by the supposed improved way of handling things. If you are not early in your career, do not expect much.

3.0
Sep 25, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

IBM has called the school of the talent people in the intelligence technology. In Japan, the educational system is the best. Enployees can learn the skill. In Japan, offsharing of programming proceeds and they can work near the top management as time passes.

Cons

This is the big company in the Japan. As a result, some sectors will become downside.In addition, big company symdorom harms employees. They can take only the small size of jobs. IBM is the big company but it forgets the animal spirits. they have to work more and more because small companys which have the great skill overcome it.

2.0
Sep 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Cool technology (depends on the team/group/product you work on). I've been fortunate to have worked on a team that provided man PoCs for Fortune500 companies.

Cons

I've also been unfortunate to work for a very lame and useless team as well. You could really feel yourself losing braincells by the minute. Mgmt was waaaaaaay to old! They were very out of sync w/ employees, technology, etc.

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