IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,367 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 107,367 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
1.0
Feb 27, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

This list would have been long a few years back. Significant cultural change in the last 18 months. Pay is okay, job flexibility is good, products are top notch, most people that work here are good. The current senior sales management team is the worst I have seen and I have worked for other large software companies.

Cons

From a Sales perspective: Complete lack of trust of employees. dictatorial management style, very metric oriented with virtually no employee feedback is allowed or encouraged. Turnover is high.

1.0
Feb 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global Brand, decent money to begin with

Cons

Company restructures at the drop of a hat. Not very employee friendly. I was made to work on projects as a non billable resource which made it very hard for me at appraisal time

2.0
Jan 31, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

demanding / challenging work smart co-workers access to cutting edge technologies and huge accounts

Cons

work is constantly being off-shored. The current business model is to simplify job roles and then off-shore them to low cost labor countries. Means getting promoted is difficult, and a probability of a good salary increase is low.

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