IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,206 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 107,206 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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107K reviews
3.0
Jun 1, 2011
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Pros

Flexibility to live almost anywhere I needed to. Great brand name. Solid pay and benefits if you can get and KEEP a US citizen, US based job.

Cons

Career paths and mentoring that used to exist, have all disappeared in truth, but are still praised and lauded as real (this can be very confusing). Unless you are one of the extreme performers (aka selling madly for them), you will NOT be praised or rewarded and WILL treated as a cost to be minimized. In a company of excellent people, it is very disconcerting to be called 'ok' when you are in fact world class and perform at that level daily. Company is now going out of its way to hide where employment is taking place and where it is getting moved from and to (aka no longer publishing employment by country, only overall employement, and NOT commenting on layoff's unless required by outdated local law).

2.0
May 10, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

- work-life balance -- work from home allowed

Cons

-- Absolutely no meritocracy -- totally based on personal relationships -- Raise and bonus are a joke, compared to industry -- Career progression is bureaucratic and not merit based it is a heavily matrixed organization filled with ego-centric mediocre managers who have no competitiveness in them -- IBM is successful not because of skill but because of size. It needs some decent competition to spin the leaderships head.

1.0
Apr 28, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Work From Home Flexibility in working hours Multi Location work allowed

Cons

Managerial competency the lowest. HR is no where in picture. IBMers don't really know what an HR is! Anything and everything needs a managerial approval

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