IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,237 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,237 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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2.0
Mar 6, 2016

Need to focus and move fast

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A very large company with many career potentials. Worldwide presence makes it a great company to work for if you have an interest to work overseas. IBM was ahead of its time in so many ways including embracing social, open source, and cloud as the core of its business. Company has very smart people working in it. Work/life balance is good.

Cons

As much as the company was ahead of its time in many areas: cloud, social, mobile, and open source, it didn't do enough to make a lasting impact in the industry. There are smart, strategic IBMers who had long identified those up-trends. But senior management hung on to status-quo, focusing on mainframes, middle-ware, and once high margin hardware business. There is little to no career development. Most people are "tenured" are staying to retire. Executives are compensated based on earnings per share. This inherently steer them to cost cut in places where it matters most: high quality hires, education, and technology investment. Short-term gains and complacency lead to long-term decline of the company. Most executives are just waiting for retirement, leaving a shadow of a company that IBM once was.

1.0
Feb 8, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. As a former IBMer I thought coming back to IBM would be much like my previous experience working for IBM 10 years ago. It was much, much worse.

Cons

Poor direction, poor poor management, lack of vision, lack of communication, lack of defined job role & lack of job description, IBM over hired & had to conduct massive layoffs less than 1 year after hiring the Cloud staff.

1.0
Jan 29, 2016

Corporate Greed At Its Finest

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Pros

Ability to telecommute. Connecting with people locally, nationally & globally.

Cons

Employee pay was cut by 10% more than once. In office workers were denied office supplies. Quarterly layoffs due to replacing experienced stateside employees with offshore, inexperienced, undependable, straight-out-of-high-school kids. Ten layers of overpaid management, whose jobs are never in jeopardy, consistently get bonuses because they "make their numbers" by firing people instead of being innovative with cost saving products or processes. CEO and completely unnecessary upper management are totally out of touch - they view employees, who actually contribute by doing the work, as expenses instead of the valuable assets they are.

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