IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,304 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 107,304 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
2.0
Oct 20, 2018

Sinking ship..

Recommend
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Pros

Work from home opportunities, and decent benifits

Cons

Offshoring all jobs to cut cost, which will eventually fire back. Most of the clients are now dropping IBM because of poor quality of service. IBM has now become a joke. Stay away from this company.

2.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Many great, intelligent, and helpful people. Competitive benefits and offices all over the world. Great place to build skills working on mainframe systems so you could easily learn here and then walk onto any job with a company using IBM mainframes. If your interests lie outside of that forum though, look elsewhere.

Cons

Unfortunately, this list is growing. Multiple large layoffs have crippled the company and the loss of that experience is not recoverable. The current philosophy to "constantly reinvent yourself" from the CEO breeds a deep and constant sense of confusion and lack of cohesive direction. All of that and it seems (in my experience) as if it is the developers vs. the management. The culture is an aging IBM-pention-promised set of grumbling and disillusioned people. I am sure there are plenty of good managers here but if should not be part of the job description to seek out the few good teams on which to work. Three of my four colleagues who started with me are no longer here (1 laid off, 2 quit).

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