IBM Inside Client Representative reviews

1.5

4% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

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Inside Client Representative employees have rated IBM with 1.5 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Inside Client Representative professionals have a poor working experience there. IBM is rated 61% below average by Inside Client Representative professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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30 reviews
2.0
Jun 17, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of a vacation: 15 days plus 4 "personal choice holidays", so basically 19 days of vacation to start with. The schedule is also flexible, if you need to work from another city or work from home to receive a delivery, it usually isn't a problem. Likewise, there are no set number of sick days: if you are sick, you don't come in. This also leads to you tending to work while you are out sick or on vacation (just a quick email check...), which skews your work/life balance a bit.

Cons

Upper management is completely disconnected from the "grunts". We are told to do things simply because they come from "higher up" than our first or second line manager, but these things are being done everywhere from Los Angeles to Smallville, Kansas. The country, states, and cities are not one-size-fits-all, but our performance is measured as such. Our pay, however, is not, so you need to balance time between the BS that doesn't help so that you keep your job, while still managing to finish what you would otherwise have gotten done so that you continue to get paid.

2.0
Jun 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Great benefits when compared to other companies. -Big company = lots of opportunities -The risk of failure vs. the risk of reward in inside sales is pretty good

Cons

-It's a big machine, you might inadvertently get chewed up by it. -Moving around within the company is a crap-shoot, you might end up in a spot that's terrible, but you have little way of knowing ahead of time.-\ -Lots of people slacking off, hiding within the protective confines of the big machine. -The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Its balance sheet and the quality of recent software companies acquired. Its global reach and the few old pincipals still alive in the old IBMers who helped build the company on its core foundation of respect for individuals..sadly missing in the newer generation and lost in greed of quaterly accounting.

Cons

Its lost its human side and has allowed the accountants to run the business rather than well rounded business people, it keeps weighing the pig and forgets to feed it

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