IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,344 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 107,344 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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3.0
Dec 16, 2014

IBM - Top Heavy

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Technical competence is high, lots of skilled people that understand and perform their job very well. And, for the most part, everyone works hard and is willing to help each other.

Cons

There are far more planners, project managers, sales-people and managers than actual 'doers' - that implement the technical plans created by others, an 'inverted pyramid' organization where the majority of the effort is on requirements that cascade downward from on-high to a small number of over-worked, stressed out implementers.

2.0
Nov 22, 2014
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Pros

At one time it was a good place to work. They paid me.

Cons

It became a terrible place to work and from what I understand not much has changed. Had a backstabbing manager who screwed me over after detailing a family situation I was going through. This company is concerned about one thing - the stock price and will do whatever it takes to inflate it. Management did nothing but pay lip service and say that you had to understand the business. Resource actions there should be illegal, but they operate just under the radar of the laws so that they don't get caught. Was part of a resource action and 6 months later was contacted by a contracting company about my position under the manager who targeted me in the RA. Only good outcome to that was that his bean counting butt was shown the door. IBM has sold it's PC, Retail and now Server groups...what's left?

3.0
Nov 20, 2014

A great company that appears to be in decline

Anonymous employee
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Pros

ability to work from home or pretty much anywhere, you can find a subject matter expert on anything, many different kinds of technologies - most of the people are really great to work with and very dedicated - great place to work for a few years for your resume

Cons

there was no such thing as work life balance and morale was low in the area I worked - the salary plan was poor even for good performers if you were in an area that does not receive commissions - variable pay has been drastically reduced for years - I agree with other reviewers that there is too much middle management

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