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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,291 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 107,291 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 3, 2008

      Good employer but much room for improvement.

      It specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very flexible in terms of work time, home office and so on. Its quite easy to maintain work life balance and be with your family at IBM. You even get pushed by the company to do so. Teamwork is great and everyone is very professional to get the job done.

      Cons

      Extremely process driven and some of the implemented processes really dont make any sense. Most of the time the processes are necessary and even a very good thing, but some of them are just not usable in the real world out there. Focusing the business on shareholder value as main issue is not very aplicable either.

      5.0
      Aug 10, 2008

      First year in career has been one year with IBM.

      Management consultant (strategy & change)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A great place to develop as a professional. Career opportunities in many different fields! The matrix organization forces people to work together and not against each other. If you have the ambition to drive your career, IBM is a perfect place to do it!

      Cons

      Compensation wise it could be better. Not competitive salaries. Make sure you don´t drown in the information flow and administrative processes.

      4.0
      Aug 9, 2008

      overall it is a good company

      Sales specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great company. Once you have the experience of working for IBM, it helps you find another job easily. Product is good, stable quality even the price is always higher than competitors. But one of the best things I have to say that IBM has lots of professional managers that willing to help employers grow and to be successful. I have had the opportunity to work with those managers that are open minded, understands employee's needs, concerns, and willing to listen. Overall, the working environment is pretty good, compare with other companies I worked before, and worked after I left IBM.

      Cons

      too much internal political, but it maybe unavoidable almost anywhere. IBM product is always famous for good quality, however, I could not understand why it is so hard for them to cut the cost, and when I worked for PC division, the one that sold to Lenovo later on, IBM could not effectively resolve issues from supply chain, and internal program error. As a leading IT organization, it looks difficult for IBM to resolve these issues, and it certainly hurt the company's reputation. I know they have tried, but it did not work well. I hope it gets better now.

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