IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,079 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 107,079 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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2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility. You can work from home and live anywhere.

Cons

A HUGE percentage of the jobs are being oursourced to other countries. There is little funding for employee education. This is not a people company anymore. They just want you to work overtime all the time. There is constantly this unspoken message that you better be happy that you have a job because we can outsource your job any day now.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work/Life balance options are mostly pretty good. If you're non-exempt and in a position that can get some overtime hours or carries a pager, the pay isn't horrible.

Cons

Very poor senior management treatment of lower rung employees. Nearly all technical workers are now non-exempt (hourly). The big push is to globalize resources to areas with cheaper labor rates. American technical employees are second class citizens and liabilities. Due to these issues, morale in the company is dreadful and getting anything done is pretty much impossible. The other large issue in Services is that Sales is under the gun to sell as much software as possible and we are always stuck trying to deliver the promises.

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Acccess to emerging technologies and some fantastic people. Because of IBM's global reach, I've been able to work with colleagues around the globe on complex issues. It really is a 24X7 company able to respond to customer issue around the clock. A follow the sun service provider.

Cons

Endless travel, weak raises in spite of high performance, Executive leadership manages via spreadsheet.

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