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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,304 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 107,304 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
      Jul 9, 2017

      Used to be a great company to work for

      Software sales specialist
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      Pros

      There are some great people at the company, great brand and rich heritage

      Cons

      Becoming a very aggressive culture... lots of lay offs, targeting more senior and expensive personnel, lots of people being fired for not achieving outrageous and unrealistic sales targets

      3.0
      Jun 30, 2017

      Senior Associate Offering Manager

      Senior associate offering manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      3 months training on Design Thinking is a great experience! You learned a lot about how to work with customers and teams to figure out the optimal buyer journey which is the greatest starting point of building a software solution. A lot of learning opportunities offered in the company.

      Cons

      Be careful about the team you are joining. It varies a lot from team to team. Be careful about bureaucracy and old-management style of your manager. It might destroy your career there.

      2.0
      Jun 25, 2017

      Unrealistic sales driven deadlines, ridiculous bureaucracy, and general disinterest from management

      Advisory software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - In the past there has been a liberal work from home policy. I'm not sure how much longer that will last. - The company 401k matching contribution is good and is fully vested from the start.

      Cons

      - Multiple (one or more) layoffs per year every year I was at the company (almost 10 years). - Terrible or none existent bonuses. - Management mostly concerned with how to preserve and progress their careers and has little interest in progressing staff careers. - Software engineering organization driven by rigid sales motivated deadlines with little consideration for sound software development practices. This creates substandard software services that are unmaintainable. But Sales doesn't care and engineering management team is too afraid to push back. - Bluemix IS an awful mess and any product or service that has to integrate with it WILL be made worse by having to integrate and adhere to the terrible bureaucracy that exists within it.

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