IBM Client Engineering reviews

2.5

25% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

43% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Client Engineering employees have rated IBM with 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Client Engineering professionals have an average working experience there. IBM is rated 35% below average by Client Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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70 reviews
4.0
Sep 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

A completely ethical and fair environment that gives the employees the necessary safety and predictability to focus on the job to do. Flexible on hours and workplace. Welcomes diversity. Possibility of working on large, multi-million dollar projects and products. Most senior business and technical leadership are experienced professionals and great people.

Cons

Publicly owned, very traditional and risk-averse, it's a company focused on cost-savings, integrated vertical business processes and global cross policies and operations. In summary, to avert risk, it's a very slow-moving, traditional and predictable organization. It would take 20 people just to change a light bulb, another 20 to bill the customer and 5 others to audit the whole process. The result of this is that there is very little room for individualism, risk-takers, good use of intuition and real-time response to an dynamic market. "Innovation" in go-to-market routes, products and disruptive strategy is mostly done through acquisitions, despite the large investment in R&D (which sometimes is watered down due to our slow time-to-market).

1.0
Jun 6, 2012

IBM Middle East

Recommend
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Pros

Big Company that is well known

Cons

Big Company with rigid processes and alot of management that come from admin not sales background. Middles East is ok to work in for IBM if you are Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian or generally come from the ME region - My personal manager was a fantastic man - people above him I would never work for again

5.0
May 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best reasons to work at IBM. Great company that provides great experience. Has it is own culture and style that I liked.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working at IBM. Too structured in a way sometimes it blocks creativity and gets talent to leave.

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