Is IBM a good company to work for as a Engineering Manager?

Engineering Manager professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 2.0 out of 5 stars in 32 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Engineering Manager Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Engineering Manager interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Engineering Manager employees well?

Engineering Manager professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.0 out of 5 stars based on 32 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 18.2% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Engineering Manager salaries at IBM.

How happy are Engineering Manager professionals working at IBM?

21% of Engineering Manager employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 63% in the past 12 months. Engineering Manager professionals have also rated IBM with a 3.2 rating for work-life-balance, 4.0 rating for diversity and inclusion, 2.0 rating for culture and values and 1.7 rating for career opportunities.

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What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 11024 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 4994 reviews)); "IBM Canada provides flexible work hours and one can work from home almost all the time." ((in 4351 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3396 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3327 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5427 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2180 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2008 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1778 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 615 reviews))

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2.0

21% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

98% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.0

Compensation and benefits

2.0

Culture & values

1.7

Career opportunities

1.5

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Engineering Manager employees have rated IBM with 2.0 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Engineering Manager professionals have a poor working experience there. IBM is rated 48% below average by Engineering Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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32 reviews

1.0

Apr 30, 2026

Good initial salary overshadowed by poor culture and pay hike

Engineering manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good Salary initially 2. good joining bonus

Cons

1. Bad Culture 2. Bad Hike 3. Bad Variable pay 4. Good politics

2.0

Jun 29, 2025

Engineering manager with technical progress is challenge

Engineering manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1, You will get ample of team members working for long in IBM SL. 2. You do get your time, because one task runs for long. 3. Good tools with some bad tools are with you.

Cons

1. Why question is hard to get answer here, 2. Looking for access to prod logs, request for another access and that will be given to you in 2 days and even if thats a P1 issue. Hard to adjust to it if you are build to this mindset.

3.0

Jan 17, 2025

Great People, dumb policies

Engineering manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- work with smart people - big company, many opportunities - ok benefits

Cons

- brain drain due to location policies - still held back by legacy software development practices - need to feed old customers using legacy ($$) IBM software

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