IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,191 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 107,191 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
Oct 18, 2015

Delivery Centre Brno

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Pros

They are paying in time.

Cons

In Brno delivery center is only one key aspect which somehow matters - costs. Because centers around the world (India, Poland, Romania..) are actually competitors, this fact brings huge focus on salary and budget savings. Consequences are expected and easily to guess. People are generally underpaid and demotivated, constantly looking for new job and there is really huge employee turnover - this leads to constant massive hiring and dozens of opened positions. Is almost impossible to get external education (I had one in 4 years) and salary raises are very symbolic or completely missing - depends on your manager luck. Company is not so successful in last years, so also annual bonuses somehow disappeared and overall atmosphere is far from satisfaction. There are no meal vouchers or any valuable benefits at all. First line managers are speaking trumpets of higher management, without single right or competence to change anything. Is normal, that manager have dozens of people to "manage", usually between 25-35. So now you can imagine, how he can help you with personal grow or achieving your career goals. I'm still trying to find something positive on those years, which I spend in delivery center, but except few great colleages and opportunity to learn lot of new things, I don't see anything else..Ahh well, now I know, that local tram is called "salina"..

1.0
Oct 13, 2015

Pathetic company to work with

Recommend
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Pros

learning centre No other Pros ... Other than the one mentioned above...

Cons

Management is totally Czech Based .. On paper diversity.. No cultural ethics within the team Make you feel out of place everytime you try to interact .. Will always demotivate you .. If Team Lead is Czech I think it would be better if it is out of Czech they will lick Czechs like anything ...

1.0
Sep 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Relatively stable company with long history and favorable brand that has not caught up to its technical decline. Smart people subject to a withering personnel evaluation system.

Cons

Almost total focus on near term (next few months) returns. Funding model that makes employees short term contractors to development divisions and customers with almost no ability to think about long term technology or science.

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