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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,243 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      77% 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 107,243 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
      Sep 15, 2015

      Application Development Specialist

      Applications development specialist
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      Pros

      Experience. Opportunities to get certifications. Get your experience and RUN. You can work from home (2 days a month)

      Cons

      Underpaid. Very misleading. Training is inconsistent. Management/HR says one thing and does another. Fresh college hires are placed on projects by managers requiring experience then penalized if they're released from the project due to lack of experience and sometimes terminated from the company. Some former employees are still being paid after notifying management for months after quitting so the turnover rate doesn't seem so awful. The performance rating system is terrible.

      4.0
      Sep 12, 2015

      New Hire Starting Soon

      User experience designer
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      Pros

      I applied online in early June and received initial contact from the hiring manager in early July. The first phone interview was with the hiring manager. He told me a bit about his particular department and the types of products his UX team is currently working on. He then asked me to talk about a couple of projects in my online portfolio. A few weeks later I had a second phone interview with two members of the UX team. The conversation was the same as the first call. Throughout the process, the manager was kind enough to keep me in the loop instead of leaving me in the infamous black hole of uncertainty. He was very accommodating when I expressed that I had received another offer while waiting for IBM to make their decision and tried to fast-track the process for me. I was then asked to fill out my residential and criminal histories for the last seven years. After this, I took the IBM Information Processing Aptitude Test (IPAT) which consisted of three logic-based sections, two of which were numbers based. I'm not a math person, so this was nerve-wracking for me, but I heard that it's an outdated test that they don't really pay attention to. A few days later, The manager asked to set up a short phone call. I was expecting another interview or to talk about flying me out for an on-site interview, but to my surprise was offered the position. It was a great base salary offer with great benefits for someone fresh out of college like myself. I'm still in the process of gathering information prior to starting, but I can tell that IBM wants us to succeed. It still feels like I'm dreaming.

      Cons

      In the beginning I was only communicating with the hiring manager. Once I received the offer letter, I was told to communicate with a recruiter from HQ in Armonk, NY. Having to deal with a completely new person in a completely different location kind of slowed the process down and it seemed somewhat unnecessary to involve a third party at this point. Since then, the recruiter has been much slower in responding than the manager, but I don't want to distract the manager from his primary job. Because of this, the on-boarding process could be made a bit smoother. Communications with a slow-to-respond recruiter is frustrating when you have less than two weeks to find an apartment and move across the East coast.

      1.0
      Aug 26, 2015

      Financial Analyst

      Financial analyst
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      Pros

      the majority of FA's are your age fresh from graduating college so it is easy to make friends. Flex Friday

      Cons

      You will start as supplemental in most cases. If you are lucky you will get an easy desk where the FA before you isn't leaving the company and will actually train you on how to complete your work. Otherwise you will get someone who is out the door and you will get about 1 week of training and you will have no idea how to do your job. Your manager in most cases has no idea what your daily tasks are or specifics to your role. Then you will get promoted and it gets worse. They pile on more work with about a 1K bump in pay. This is the point most people leave. They are really good at giving you a ton of work knowing they can replace you with another college graduate. The turnover in the COE is unreal over 35%. the average person lasts a year and a half. Really its only that high because the people that have been there more than 3 yrs their spouse works at mayo and they are not moving. Be ready for a ton of work with no pay and no appreciation. Most likely you will start with 15-30 new hires and after 3 months half will have quit for better jobs. My advice is go in with the mindset that there is no career path here and use it as a resume builder. Always remember the COE is vastly different than IBM itself. It may fall under IBM but you are basically a cheap labor center from overseas. The COE is a cost effective center and it is ran as such.

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