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      3.8

      97% would recommend to a friend

      (9 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

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      31% positive business outlook

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      4.6

      Culture & values

      4.6

      Career opportunities

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Compensation and benefits

      1.6

      Senior management

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      9 reviews
      4.0
      Sep 10, 2015

      Great While it Lasted

      Development engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great opportunities for promotion and education. You could move up or stay in your position. When I was there from 1995 through 2003 management encouraged upward mobility.

      Cons

      Very difficult to get a decent pay raise due to pay band compression. New hires frequently were given higher salaries over established more senior workers

      2.0
      Apr 10, 2013

      Not what it used to be

      Development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      IBM is a huge company and because of that there are many opportunities for long term employees to go overseas to China or India which are the only growth ares in IBM. They offer decent salaries after 20 years.

      Cons

      They are working towards a $20 per share earnings target by 2015. That has resulted in very deep, often ill advised cost cutting. There is no incentive to work hard and the bonus salary plans have been gutted to meet the 2015 goal. Employees come last at IBM, don't ever forget it.

      1.0
      Dec 27, 2012

      No longer world class

      Development engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      IBM employees still have good reputation, even though management does not.

      Cons

      Executives have totally rejected the values and principles of the Watsons. People are not valued, and short term profit is pursued by cutting quality, service, and skilled employees. Effectively no raises for most US employees for the last decade except for executives. Bloated bureaucracy with 5-6 layers of vice presidents (out of 8-9 layers of management) between the average professoinal and the CEO. Just when it seems morale can't get any lower, executives find a way to knock it down more. Withholding 401k match is the latest scheme.

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