Is IBM a good company to work for as a Hardware Development Engineer?

Hardware Development Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.9 out of 5 stars in 127 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Hardware Development Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Hardware Development Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Hardware Development Engineer employees well?

Hardware Development Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 2.9 out of 5 stars based on 127 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 21.5% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Hardware Development Engineer salaries at IBM.

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"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 11063 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5023 reviews)); "IBM Canada provides flexible work hours and one can work from home almost all the time." ((in 4372 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3461 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3323 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5432 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2190 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2000 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1756 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 620 reviews))

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3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(127 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

99% approve of CEO

97% positive business outlook

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4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Career opportunities

3.7

Culture & values

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.3

Senior management

2.9

Compensation and benefits

Hardware Development Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 127 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Hardware Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Hardware Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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127 reviews

1.0

Mar 5, 2014

Get Out While You Can

Staff hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Pros? Are there any? I don't think so.

Cons

Salaries are 20% below industry. Executive management is incompetant

3.0

Jan 29, 2014

Good place to work, very flexible work hour.

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work hour, great co-workers, cutting edge technology related work

Cons

Recently seems like IBM is moving from Hardware to more software and services. Recent job cuts made the morale go down.

4.0

Jan 26, 2014

Hardware is serious contracting/shrinking, but software (cloud, big data, mobile, cognitive computing, social) is great.

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

This company really does try to change the world for the better.

Cons

Today, that means shrinking my area (hardware engineering/chip development).

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