IBM reviews

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

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
4.0
Jun 23, 2017

Long time employee

Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best people and breadth of products. Some excellent learning opportunities and with some products you are actually working on things that run or change the world

Cons

Executives not driven by customer need but strategic objectives detached from reality. Short sighted decision making impacting the business success and making the company a laughing stock

1.0
Jun 16, 2017

IBM

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large company who is trying to provide services it hadn't before and strives to innovate.

Cons

In my experience IBM turned out to be worse than all of the worst things you've ever read about the company, and that is pretty bad considering the volume of terrible things that are written. The work they acquired from PepsiCo was managed incredibly sloppy, they did not seem to care about their people at all and over time proved to be bold faced liars. The executive team and company had no interest in trying to learn the work before making assurances they could not, and did not deliver. I would be shocked if Pepsi continued to do business with them and renewed the contract here in a couple of years. Overall my experience after 3 years was that the company was sloppy, careless, and remarkably arrogant.

2.0
Jun 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fresh college grads get much needed experience and a foot in the door, a lot of resources available to you to grow as a professional, very laid-back and relaxed atmosphere, great work/life balance

Cons

Salary and benefits are not even competitive for the area, career growth and prospects are virtually non-existent or entirely too long, low morale among employees, location itself is a little too remote, policies in place without any justification to their existence, project deployment is slow and the work is often unsatisfying

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