IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,178 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,178 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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2.0
Dec 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Fortune 500 company on your resume, 6 months of travel and training

Cons

-No organization whatsoever in the digital rotation program, will stick you anywhere just because of headcount -Out of the blue PAY CUTS. They are giving out significant pay cuts along with reducing benefits -Management doesn't care. The premise of the rotation program was to find people job opportunities moving out but 80% of the people graduating from the program do not have placements and are essentially unemployed.

2.0
Jul 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good company if you don't want to progress in life , not good for competitive people who want to learn and grow in their career and that is why most of the new hires leave quickly

Cons

Quality of engineers is degrading as interview process is a joke. Also a lot of under qualified interns get Full-time offers. Pay is sub-standard with no stock or bonuses, increment is very less. Too much politics within orgs and only different forms of flattery will give you a promotion rather than hard work. Code Quality is very bad as most of the people try to go around the problem rather than actually fixing the problem. Most of the managers do not have a minimum technical understanding, less testing done when code is pushed to production and thus too many bugs and customer complaints. Company is trying too hard to show itself to be cool but in reality it is company of old people who have stayed so long that they don't understand the latest technologies. Their cloud is horrible, clearly losing business to competitors due to bad service

1.0
Jul 12, 2019

Underpaid

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company looks good on your resume.

Cons

This company was terrible to work for. Unrealistic expectations and lack of direction. People are terribly underpaid and being an 'IBMer' doesn't really benefit you as you are more likely to be let go than being a contractor. This really is a starter job for someone looking for a big company name to put on your resume.

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