IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,248 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 107,248 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
3.0
Jul 27, 2010

Good place of work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- many additional benefits - Huge knowledge databases - resume builder

Cons

- management quality - they cut almost all around work benefits ( no cafe, no hardware spendings etc)

4.0
Jul 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Strategic vision Support for working at home, flex time Management tries to be very supportive of needing time to deal with personal issues Good vacation/benefits package Strong on sharing strategic focus, educating workers, encouraging self-development

Cons

Many years in a row of little to zero salary increase (as a top performer and consistently rated a top performer) Expect lay-offs every year (sometimes twice a year) with upper level management not being aware of who's going to pick up the extra work... mid-management re-distributes to the employees Excessive work load and long hours, which you put in to avoid being in the next round of lay-offs Yearly review process is a joke. You are pitted against your other colleagues, and management is forced to give rating on a bell curve (for every top employee, someone has to be given a poor rating). Politics will suck the life force out of you! Tendency for workers to only help you in a limited way, so you're constantly trying to seek more people for input to get a job done.

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