IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,331 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 107,331 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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2.0
Apr 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers; well-known brand; good benefits; large company so potential to experience many different kinds of business units.

Cons

Company leaders are wholly focused on shareholder price and looking good on the outside to the exclusion of everything else. Lots of spinning of image to look relevant, but on the inside staff are struggling to complete work with antiquated hardware and inadequate software tools. Many layers of process to complete a request. Frequent lay-off programs and stacked ranking evaluation systems either frighten employees into working themselves to death or pit them against each other to get a better ranking. Staff are constantly told to 'get exposure' to upper management so when ranking time comes around they will not be just a faceless headcount to cut. Raises, bonuses are infrequent; pay low to average.

2.0
Apr 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work life balance, the chance to work with lots of very smart people

Cons

Very chaotic and unorganized. the company is simpley too big at this point and doesn't know how to bring its products into the modern era of fast past releases.

2.0
Apr 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

401k matched contribution after 2 years...extra week of vacation time after 2 years...that's it...o, infrequent raises (bi-yearly at most) that are below the inflation rate.

Cons

low pay, lack of transparency and trust in management; random firings and lay offs. If you can't find any of the few projects available, good luck staying employed because you will be thoroughly kicked to the curb. IBM Baton Rouge CIC is essentially a glorified call center. Hush hush atmosphere promoted by management. They'll tell you some of what you need to know and plenty of what you don't. Same goes for the training...pshh...training.

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