IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,281 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 107,281 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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1.0
Jun 28, 2017

Bad Experience

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Pros

I learned a lot, which will help me with future jobs.

Cons

Where to start. I honestly can't decide what was worse, the projects or the people. The project I worked on was miserable, and every single person on the team wanted to leave (and many eventually did, even the manager, who told us she really didn't want to be here anymore). And then there was the people. What do you get when you mix inexperience with over confidence? You guessed it! An IBMer. Every single day I had to sit across from a coworker who continually bragged about his accolades and achievements, meanwhile doing absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, this guy was not an anomaly at IBM Design. During Design Bootcamp, there was so much immaturity among the new hires that some designers flat out REFUSED to work with each other, and therefore had to be separated (kind of like in Kindergarten when one kid steals the other's crayon). One girl even started crying when another girl critiqued her wireframe "too harshly" and went and told on her to a design lead. I wish I was joking. I would sit back and watch all this happen, completely floored by the fact that people like this had passed the culture fit part of the interview.

2.0
Jun 17, 2017

Pass on IBM

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Pros

My salary was higher than the market paid in my area. When telecommuting was allowed, that was a huge perk for me.

Cons

Offshoring positions at any cost (including when comparable talent could not be found) might be good for the stock price, but it is tearing the company apart. Ginni told President Trump IBM could not find talent in our country-- what an outright lie.

2.0
Jun 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Steady job with Salary and Good Benefits. When you have a good year, the bonuses can be very nice, especially working in Sales. You co-workers are really nice people, and pretty smart, too! They have built some great technology over the years, and some of it is still very valuable to customers.

Cons

I survived almost a constant threat of layoffs in 2016. I decided that I would not do that again in 2017. IBM is a financial company, it is only in business to make money. If you can improve revenues, cut costs, or innovate with very few resources, you are valuable. If you are here for any other reason, then you will not last long.

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