IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,250 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,250 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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2.0
Jan 23, 2014

Stay away from IBM Brno

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Pros

U could do lot of home office if your role entitle u to do it

Cons

Low salary compared with cmpetitor Enviromet stressfull False callegue Incompetent First line managers Nepotism High level of mobbing Blind view of the market

2.0
Jan 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Worked fulltime at IBM Bandar Utama nearing 7 years now. Work life flexibility, comfortable work place.

Cons

Not as it used to be. Prev Director takes good care of the employees. Family days, company-employee events, subsidies (in-office beverages, medical coverage,etc) were good. New Director took most of it away and so far no Annual Day event for 2 years straight now. Probably try to hard impress the board at the expense of the employees. Very poor bonus-performance system. Seen good employees (company-oriented ones) receive mediocre bonus due to the reporting manager's *ahem* misjudgement (read:dislike). Seen lots of good employees not being promoted to supervisory/manager level despite he/she is more knowledgeable and better at decision-making than the reporting managers. Also seen ridiculous employees promoted due to @$$-kissing and if you are from the light-skinned race (not being racist here, mind you). Highly recommend IBM to remove the tagline "Equal Opportunity Employer" as it is no longer for more than 5 years now.

1.0
Jan 16, 2014

Avoid; they don't even pretend that you are not just a number.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Of the 400k plus employees, there are bound to be many smart people that you can draw on for help.

Cons

Miles of hindering bureaucracy. No say in where you go or what you do. You are not valuable and you are replaceable.

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