IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,240 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,240 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, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a lot of down time when you aren't on a project to do other things. Some projects offer good travel opportunities. IBM is now on your resume.

Cons

There is a lack of communication between managers and it makes it frustrating to get on a project. Deployment managers are clueless to who you are and what skills you have. You get thrown into projects where you don't have the skills or you are sold as a professional. They say 10% travel, but many projects are every week to client location for months. Salary is a joke to other jobs in the field, even in other IBM departments you get paid nearly 2X.

3.0
Feb 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Ability to work at home provides some good flexibility - Good vacation accrual. - 401k plan is decent. - lots of prepackaged process.

Cons

- Once you reach a certain level in your band, you wont make any more money. If your a band 8 like me, your expected to work about 60+ hours a weeks with no possibility of increasing salary. to increase salary you need to work 80 or more hours a week and get into band 9 - sell your soul at that point. -bonuses are a joke - a good bonus for someone that completely killed themselves is about 5k. -not able to move around like you once were -look out, your job may and will be outsourced next.

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