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      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

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      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
      2.0
      Jan 23, 2012

      This is a messy place to work. It is not the one that I thought of in my graduate school.

      Senior engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. Flexible work/life balance if you work on non-critical projects. 2. Excellent and open minded colleagues on the first line to work with.

      Cons

      1. If you work on critical projects, please prepare yourself to sacrifice your work/life balance, prepare yourself to work with the frequent high level management decision change. 2. Very poor employee recognition, unless you are a kissing-ass type of employee.

      1.0
      Jan 6, 2012

      It was great a decade ago, then jobs for Americans offshored or replaced with H-1B, L1 visa holders.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      If you don't care about job security, and can get a job, it may pay well. However, IBM is shifting American workers into centers in low wage states and locations. Existing employees can relocate themselves or simply lost the moved job. Many job types were "debanded" (demoted). Today it is all about cheap labor.

      Cons

      Enormous job insecurity. Many Americans lost jobs this year but some get to return as contractors (without benefits). Number of American workers declined to 105,000 in 2009 and is believed now to be about 95,000. This is a company with about 400,000 employees. There is job growth, but not in the USA.

      1.0
      Oct 26, 2011

      Would never work there again

      Principal consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent compensation. But watch-out for those who become employees in an acquisition! They do not grand-father tenure from previous company in compensation calculations when they lay you off. Also, they are committed to drawing down their US staff as much as possible.

      Cons

      Our small customer-focused software company was acquired by IBM SWG in 2009. They laid-off 25% of us within first year. They would not allow us to go to training for other software tools. Their bureaucracy and "blue washing" is ridiculously cumbersome. They were only interested in Sales numbers and only gave lip service to customers.

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