IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,184 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,184 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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3.0
Jul 22, 2017
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Pros

Friendly coworkers and flexible work environment. Number of vacation days is a plus. Working on cutting edge technology. Lots of opportunities to learn new skills.

Cons

My biggest complaint is they're pretty stingy giving out raises/bonuses unless you happen to be an executive. Don't see how they can reward themselves with raises when the company has had declining revenue 20+ quarters. Plus layoffs don't really give me confidence in job security.

3.0
Jul 21, 2017
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Pros

Smart co-workers, some interesting projects, new technologies, IBM's leadership in the P-Tech program and mentoring opportunities

Cons

Years of poor results, layoffs and not valuing employees has resulted in a negative culture. The environment is challenging as there is lack of trust and politics as people fight to keep their jobs. There is a lack of respect for experience at IBM and many people are new/limited experience with a huge learning curve. One of the main benefits of working at IBM was the work/life balance due to the flexibility to work from home. That has now been taken away with co-location. Even if you don't have to move, people have long commutes most days which adds to an already long and stressful workday.

1.0
Jul 1, 2017
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Pros

IBM benefits are good. They have some games and ping pong

Cons

Everything else. Coworkers all don't care, very few people actually have good customer service skills, customers complain about the product being garbage, management is complete garbage and not helpful at all, management also is shady that if there's a possible severe issue they have you lie to customers and stall on getting the issue fixed, level 2 just leaves customers hanging on the line while they go home, expectations are way to high and they know it just won't do anything about it, terrible hours, few people care about getting to the resolution in a timely manner, engineering/programmers are evil and don't do their job properly, unprofessionalism in the workplace is not a priority for management, and widespread intimidation and bullying is in full swing at merge.

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