IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,157 total reviews)
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68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,157 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IBM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 24, 2010
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Pros

1.Good exposure to different technologies and lot of work experience in a short time. 2.Pays high to people who join the company after a few years of experience. 3.Night Cab facility

Cons

1.Rude Managers , show total disrespect for employees. 2.Managers promise a lot of stuff but dont do what they say. 3.Lot of work and lot of work pressure. 4.Very bad compensation to people who join as ELTP's with very less growth Chances. 5.Loyalty to your manager would get you a good rating and not the quality of your work.. 6.Make you do more documentation(clerical work) rather than software engineering work. 7.They make you pay for the team outings ( thats cheap !) 8.Treat freshers as school kids , give you assignments and you have written tests(Even after 3 years into the job !!) 9.Absolutely no work life balance. 10.They make you stay late and dont pay for that.Only few of the shifts are approved and the rest are rejected.You manager will show you his teeth and say budget constraint..And if you dont want to work late .. they say you are not cooperative and screw your ratings 11.Flexible working hours means --- you can be called for work any time any where --- as per their convienence. 12.They give more importance to their business than your aspirations. 13.Zero benifits. 14.Managers come up with twisted policies like you cant order food if you stay late and take cab.

1.0
May 19, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, though this can leave employees isolated. A lot of highly-skilled colleagues.

Cons

No work-life balance. No, or minimal, pay rises (3% max). Staff go for 7, 8, 9 years with zero pay rises. Very low morale. At an all time low in the UK. Zero training budget. No job security. Jobs in the UK are being shipped to India/Hungary/South Africa/Poland. This has gone on for years, and is continuing. This has led to the.... CULTURE OF FEAR - ie. I must work every hour God sends, and must work longer than the next guy, otherwise I might lose my job in the next round of job cuts. Crazy appraisal system, with forced quotas for PBC 2 / 3 ratings. PBC 2 and 3 means zero pay rise, and probable redundancy. At least 50% of the workforce get these ratings. Abuse of disciplinary process to "manage poor performers". (ie. disciplining people who were given poor appraisals because of forced PBC quotas). Eroding benefits. The UK final salary pension scheme has just been closed for people who have paid into it for decades. Greed of upper management. Sam doubled his pension pot to $40M in 2009. Ineptitude - process is king in IBM, and the processes often don't work. No vision. IBM is boosting profit at a time of decreased revenue, by cutting costs. Through job cuts, it is hacking away at its skills base and eroding staff morale. IBM is heading for a big fall.

1.0
May 17, 2010
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Pros

Having the IBM name on your resume is still looked upon favorably. IBM still hires good people. IBM is a good place to start your career.

Cons

IBM management looks solely at utilization rate when determining things like promotions and raises. Competency in your actual job is not considered. If you would like a job where you're graded solely on how many hours you bill the client, then IBM is the place to work.

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