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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,282 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 107,282 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
      4.0
      Sep 30, 2009

      IBM is good company

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      I joined IBM because of the variety of job opportunities within the company and it certainly delivered that. During my almost 25 year career, I was in sales, programming, marketing and management. They provided me with paid time off for personal reasons multiple times. Though they laid me off, the separation package was very fair.

      Cons

      It's a very large company with lots of politics. The best people aren't always the ones promoted to management and executive positions. Communication can be difficult because of the matrix management and, again, politics.

      5.0
      Jul 6, 2009

      Actually I just started for almost a month now so I really cant put some advise right now

      Systems operations lead specialist
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      Pros

      They trust their employees.. They monitor their employees performance based on objectives. ex. they will give you your objectives for 2010 it will consist of this: 1.)no late filing of leaves 3.)100% customer satisfaction 4.)no late submission of reports 5.) you need to pass 3 certification exam with microsoft until december 30, 2010 6.)must attend all mandatory training Activedirectory training, Win2k8 training. etc.. 7.)etc..... You work on your own and they trust you. you will not be hearing any voice from any superior or wil receive any emails..They will trust you to complete all of this things and they will not monitor you. It doesn't matter to them whether you work from home or at the office as long as you meet all of your objectives, they will based on that as your performance. So even if you don't want to go to the office you can work ofcourse just make sure you already have a VPN.^^ In short they simply trust their employees judgement on things whether if he needs to go to the office or if he can just work while in a vacation...... WORK and LIFE BALANCE....

      Cons

      as of now I have nothing bad to say..... lets just wait and see

      5.0
      May 26, 2009

      IBM Sales Rep

      Sales representative
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      Pros

      - Great co-workers, environment were people are always helped by co-workers, but there is a need to go seek help, - rewarding, not only money-wise but also in terms of respect and special rewards by management, co-workers (dinner offering, trips, etc.) - Innovative company, global, - Good training opportunities

      Cons

      - sometimes it is competitive, high targets, unrealistic, sometimes it is problematic to work in this matrix environment, where one is tied to the brand and the line, work across the divisions is tough at times as people's incentives are based only on their brand...sometimes long hours, but that's almost everywhere the case sometimes also a bit beauraucratic...

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