IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,378 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,378 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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4.0
Sep 29, 2008
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Pros

Good growth opportunity available and good exposure to domain competency. The way the senior management guides the middle management is just stupendous. The flexibility in working hours add advantage to hire great talents through out the world. The employee friendly policies and open structure makes them feel empowered and the voice of concerns are acted upon immediately providing the employees with self satisfaction. Be it group events organized within the company, or official parties dinners, seminars, trainings, everything is so fun filled that one doesn't feel the pressure of performing. Hence we can say that performance comes naturally when the company is so friendly to their employees.

Cons

Low salary paid as compared to industry standards. Lack of awareness towards the society from the company might add a bad name to the company.

4.0
Sep 21, 2008
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Pros

I found IBM as a company with loads of enthusiastic people. There are always people around helping you out with all sorts of issues. Good live-work balance. IBM is a good starting point for a software development career and I found the knowledge I gathered there very useful throughout my later career. Very useful feedback throughout and at the end of my time at IBM.

Cons

There is too much management and processes for agile development which is certainly caused by the size of the company. Rather too many meetings through the work day occasionally causing delays on the actual delivery.

4.0
Aug 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of opportunity to find a role that suit's your strengths. Empowered to act, within reason, to achieve your objectives. Nice working environment; well furnished offices, good canteens. Reasonable understanding of the need for work / life balance. Good benefits; car, health, pension plan. Opportunity for travel and entertainment. Oh and the money isn't bad either!

Cons

Politics. There's a lot of game playing and power struggles - to prove one's worth. Too much time needed to promote oneself amongst one's peers and managers. Death by PowerPoint. Torture by Excel. Lotus Domino. Projects that go nowhere. Too comfortable - easy to becomne complacent. A place where bad performers can hide.

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