Is IBM a good company to work for as a Hardware Design Engineer?

Hardware Design Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 88 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Hardware Design Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Hardware Design Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Hardware Design Engineer employees well?

Hardware Design Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 2.9 out of 5 stars based on 88 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 21.5% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Hardware Design Engineer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Hardware Design Engineer professionals working at IBM?

72% of Hardware Design Engineer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 26% in the past 12 months. Hardware Design Engineer professionals have also rated IBM with a 3.9 rating for work-life-balance, 3.9 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.7 rating for culture and values and 3.8 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 11036 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 4993 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4373 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3387 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3339 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 5445 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2166 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2000 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1746 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 624 reviews))

IBM Hardware Design Engineer reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

99% approve of CEO

97% positive business outlook

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Hardware Design Engineer employees have rated IBM with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Hardware Design Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Hardware Design Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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88 reviews

4.0

Jan 26, 2014

Hardware is serious contracting/shrinking, but software (cloud, big data, mobile, cognitive computing, social) is great.

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

This company really does try to change the world for the better.

Cons

Today, that means shrinking my area (hardware engineering/chip development).

4.0

Dec 10, 2013

Great place to start your career

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

really smart colleagues, interesting projects if you get on right one flexible hours, work from home, they don't count vacation time

Cons

because management tends to be IBM lifers, they don't understand what's trendy in technology outside IBM, consequently, the company's not as innovative as it once was

3.0

Oct 25, 2013

Great people, company headed away from hardware

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, good work life balance, beautiful area to live in if you like the outdoors

Cons

Hardware division struggling, company wants to be in software and services, shrinking benefits, layoffs and furloughs

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