IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,270 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,270 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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107K reviews
1.0
May 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a job and you get paid, even though it’s about half of what you’re worth.

Cons

I don’t know where to begin. There are very few people who enjoy working out of Keyser, WV. Management doesn’t value developers- you’re basically a code monkey with zero room for growth, while getting less benefits than the staffing folks or the people with jobs far easier than development work. It’s really backwards and kind of shows problems at the company level. Giving worse benefits to the people making your products really isn’t the right move.

1.0
Dec 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The few good / smart people who are desperately and actively looking to get out. Lots of parking spaces?

Cons

Zero company direction Politics that stifles progress and corrodes morales A culture of "that doesn't align with my Checkpoint goals" Being right is far more important that doing right An office design that hasn't been touched since 1979

1.0
Sep 18, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Decent health and 401k benefits

Cons

If your organization is acquired by IBM, you will be laid off. It is part of IBM's business model to "buy" organizations from companies and lay of the employees a year after acquiring them. Thereby avoiding lawsuits (because IBM employed you for a year), and making sure you get a tiny severance package based on the one-year you worked for IBM.

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