IBM Engineering Manager reviews

2.8

56% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

16% approve of CEO

12% positive business outlook

Engineering Manager employees have rated IBM with 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Engineering Manager professionals have an average working experience there. IBM is rated 27% below average by Engineering Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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33 reviews
3.0
Jul 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good people still there. Has great market and product visibility.

Cons

Lack of stability. Recent layoffs have really hurt the business - not sure of the future. Focus is on short term results only. No looking to the future.

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).

2.0
Jun 30, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

There is an amazing breadth of experience you can gain working at IBM. 300mm semiconductor fab is leading edge technology which provides endless amount of personal and technical challenges. There exists a lot of flexibility in work schedules without effort to balance your personal life.

Cons

Part time employment , while availalbe, is extremely limited in career growth despite hype. Extremely unnecessarily stressful environment due to inappropriate distribution of resources as well as poor top down middle management techniques.

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