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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,239 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,239 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
      Mar 28, 2017

      Leaders are not role models

      Human resources professional
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      Pros

      Great values and great vision. The strategy designed for IBM's business growth and culture change is right on point with the needs of the new and changing environment. The management tend not to evaluate you based on hours, but impact and results - and they are advised to also evaluate how you achieve these results (you must live the values).

      Cons

      Our leaders do not do what they preach! IBM lives a constant dichotomy between what we know we need to do and what we're used to do and know the results that come from it. It's natural for any company going through such a big change, but most of the leaders are the ones not acting as the IBMers of the future and still pressuring their team to do the same so they can stay in their comfort zone - this is making a lot of good talent leave IBM.

      3.0
      Feb 24, 2017

      Poor morale & culture

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good place to build an early career

      Cons

      politics, back-stabbing and lack of culture drives the great people out of the company

      2.0
      Jan 2, 2017

      Not what it used to be

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great talented people, good benefits, and pay is competitive. There used to be a very good reason why people dedicated their whole careers to this company. You could do many different job roles and never have to leave to get a deep set of experiences and expertise. Employees used to be valued...even those late in career.

      Cons

      Cost cutting mode for the last 10 years...mostly on the back of employees. (e.g, No more pension, 401K match used to be monthly, but now is only once a year at the end of the year, so if you leave in November, you don't get it. The raise cycle dates could be arbitrarily moved out 6 months - this happened twice, employees pay for their own printer- even for work at home jobs, and they cut out money driven recognition programs). At least 50% of the US based jobs have been offshored to India over the last 10 years. Most recently they have announced the intention of having employees move to one of 6 strategic locations after encouraging employees to work from home (anywhere they wanted) for the last 15+ years. If you don't move to one of the 6 strategic (high priced places to live), then you will lose your job. This clearly is a way to get out mid to late career (well compensated) employees who will not move for a company like the new IBM. The company will just churn and burn Millennials from here on out.

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