IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,264 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,264 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
Jan 10, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule. Low work load for the competent. If you're a tech geek and play the politics, you can play with lots of new toys. Still sells some hardware, software, and operating systems that are excellent tools for having stable business IT.

Cons

A lack of backbone in lower management unless it's a factor in drive to rise in the ranks. Those that rise in the ranks usually have a vision of having a fiefdom instead of looking at the company as a whole. For a technology company that does consulting for banking and pharma, they can't seem to learn from processes they help implement for their customers and serve their customers well.

1.0
Dec 31, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

IBM’s name recognition on my resume.

Cons

The work-life balance policies need revisiting particularly as it relates to client-facing Consultants. With a company as large as IBM there defiantly needs to be a more robust Employee Assistance Program (again with particular emphasis given to client-facing Consultants that are traveling up to 100% of the week and are unable to utilize things like their Primary Care Physicians when we are sick and on the road working... There is entirely too much administrivia

2.0
Dec 21, 2011

every year it gets worse

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Potential for flexible working/working from home

Cons

Negligible raises in past 5 years together with cuts in bonus whilst company posts record profits and executive pay. Constant threat of redundancy because of policy of moving jobs to low-cost economies.

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