IBM Program Manager reviews

4.0

65% would recommend to a friend

(439 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

57% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Program Manager employees have rated IBM with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 439 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Program Manager professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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439 reviews
3.0
Mar 26, 2014

Not your father's IBM

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Pros

Can typically work from home if you're an office worker. Casual work environment. Good benefits, though there have been several negative changes recently in them.

Cons

No longer interested in supporting the workers. Raises are rare and small and compensation is deliberately targeted to be at best industry average. Education, once a strong point, is mostly on-line on-demand even when that's not a good way to learn the material.

1.0
Mar 16, 2014

Cheap sweat shop

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Pros

Flexibility to work from home when necessary, decent benefits.

Cons

I have worked for this company for over 3 years and I have _never_ received a pay increase. I accepted this position shortly after the 2008-2010 america job-pocalypse and took a huge pay cut from consultant position with competitor. They are currently paying me half of what my resume is worth. Working for this company is like living in a pressure cooker the whole time: there are internal agendas set for you to be accomplished through their very disperse and frustrating complicated systems (for all this AI Watson business, they have not even been able to develop their own single sign on system!). They substantially mandate overtime to salaried workers for years at a time through mandating 100% utilization in the Personal Business Commitments and personal reviews are nothing but a game in which managers get together and play toss ups... useless anyway, since IBM always seems to find excuses NOT to pay bonuses or pay increases. It is a sweat shop that more and more employees and customers are fleeing like the plague.

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