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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,278 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      77% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,278 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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      5.0
      Oct 4, 2017

      IBM

      Security
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility, Education, Job Diversity, Teaming, Remote Work, Travel

      Cons

      Compensation Regulations (internally) have a tendency to be a disadvantage to long time employees. Its easy for someone who has been with the company 5 years to be instantly out-paid (10-20k more) by a college grad, professional hire, new hire. This is to be considered someone starting at a low pay band and works their way up...the compensation increase plateau fairly quick for that employee while give way to someone with unproven capabilities making hand-over-fist more.

      2.0
      Sep 8, 2017

      Getting paid for sales is like The Hunger Games

      Software sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Still some good people are there. Decent pay and benefits. The company does care about diversity (except for the layoffs of older employees dubiously called "skills transformation.") The company has a few good senior leaders.

      Cons

      In software sales for large accounts, you get paid based on a subjective judgement rather than how much you sold. You have to prove that you worked on a deal. Many people who helped on large deals get nothing, and then those people get PIPs for lack of performance. The company is still driven by EPS rather than by making customers successful and employees feel valued.

      2.0
      Aug 10, 2017

      Design Director

      Design manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The Austin Design Studio is a good space filled with good designers.

      Cons

      Twenty straight quarters of declining revenues (as of Aug 2017), thus lots of reductions, attrition and not a great overall environment. Plus, it's a highly complex organization that breeds in-fighting and politics to a higher degree than other tech companies.

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