IBM Technical Project Manager reviews

3.5

85% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

57% approve of CEO

98% positive business outlook

Technical Project Manager employees have rated IBM with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Technical Project Manager professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Technical Project Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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55 reviews
1.0
Aug 11, 2016
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Pros

Best reasons to work for IBM? Wow, that's tough! When I started with IBM 9 years ago there were many good reasons to work for IBM. It was a company with a great history of respect for its employees and their customers. It was a company that paid well, treated people fairly and honestly, was respected by the industry, it's customers and it's employees. It offered people fair pay, good benefits, rewarding work environment. In reality by 2014 there is no good reason to work for IBM

Cons

Today employment at IBM has nothing but negatives. The bureaucracy is far worse than ever. In order to accomplish anything at all, one must fill out an endless stream of web forms, request databases, spreadsheets, management approvals, etc. A simple change can take weeks to get all the "ducks" aligned. The chance for career advancement is almost nonexistent. The internal jobs website has been revamped to make it almost unusable. When applying for a job, the hiring manager doesn't even give the applicant the courtesy of a response. This has happened to me on many occasions. Most of the folks that I've talked to have said the same thing. Apparently it's now considered an acceptable practice to not even acknowledge receipt of an application. I guess that should be expected given the fact that employees are now referred to as "resources" and not people. If I had a dime for every time I heard a manager refer to employees as "resources" I could retire today.

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