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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,067 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

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,067 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
      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Good place to work if you like large companies

      Senior marketing manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Job flexibility, ability to work at home, set my own hours. Management cares about the work being done, not the when and where. We enjoy a lot of flexibility, which really helps with work life balance. It is okay to spend time during the day doing something at the kid's school as long as the work is made up in the evenings or weekends.

      Cons

      Too large, hard to make a difference, hard to change things. The structure and size is at times overwhelming...it can take days to find the right contact for a simple question, and one hand rarely know what the other is doing, leading to a lot of duplication of effort, and conflict.

      2.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Got the Big Blues

      Consulting it specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It has a good brand name. The pay was decent, initially.

      Cons

      Projects are routinely undersold. Employees are placed in roles unsuitable for their career or skillset. Executive Management is out of touch with the day-to-day realities of running the company. There is a bureaucracy that only the government or the USSR can match. Despite management trumpeting efforts via the media on how IBM runs efficiently, the real story is often a far cry from what the media reports. It was only at IBM where I heard the acronym FUMU used - "Foul up, move up".

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      IBM = Innovative Bureaucratic Mega-company

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      IBM has tremendous access to markets and customers. It has robust lines of business across a wide area of IT and consulting, making it possible to spend an entire career (or two) within its boundaries. IBM enjoys a solid, world-class brand and is instantly recognizable. For those that are passionate about technology, and are good communicators, this is a great place to work.

      Cons

      It is a huge place dominated by bureaucracy, office politics and lack of transparency from management. There is almost too much technology -- through acquisitions, legacy and research, not to speak of assets developed by IBM services, it has created an unwieldy and vast number of products, technologies and components that make it difficult to move quickly. What makes it frustrating is that there is innovation happening but IBM makes it difficult to take its own assets to market effectively

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