IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,312 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 107,312 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
Apr 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you don't get fired (they call this a 'resource action') you get a pay check

Cons

20 Quarters of lower revenue - that's a con for sure. Management takes large bonuses while the worker bees go without. No feeling of stability. Morale is in the tank after years of this.

1.0
Apr 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no longer any 'Pros' to working at IBM. The company continues to loose customers and market share, the endless cycle of budget cuts, layoffs and increased expectations as eroded the last shreds of decency from the company. People are looking to either get out or protect themselves from the next layoff and seasoned professionals are being let go and replaced with young inexperienced people at 1/2 the salary.

Cons

To many to list. The pressure is unrelenting, no one in marketing does any actual marketing they simply take numbers and information, drop them into powerpoint decks or incredibly myopic 'funnel charts' and 'spin the numbers'. Good, decent, seasoned professionals that have spend years trying to right the ship are being let go and replaced by inexperienced college grads and yet management wants to know why the numbers are off, why the pipeline isn't healthier. Marketing is told to sell and promote solutions that do not actually exist and if they do, don't work. The company is all about 'cloud solutions' but the cloud solutions suffer from poor architecture and constant outages.

1.0
Mar 30, 2017

IBM sucks

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

financial engineering gone wild no recognition of contributions

Cons

lack of responsibility by executives dropping revenue for 10 years running, CEO gets bonus

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