IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,312 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 107,312 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
2.0
May 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Was on many teams and for the most part, they all enabled you to get the job done. Only one account with mostly outsourced resourced did not embrace the IBM way of doing things.

Cons

Head count reductions don't make sense. Even one star performers are listed. No resources to cover, or foreign resources who cannot tell the difference between hardware or software because they do not have an IT background.

1.0
May 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Skilled and innovative colleagues, especially those who deliver software.

Cons

Management now resorting to asking staff to post positive Glassdoor reviews to counter all the negative ones. No prospect of a payrise. Staff get treated like a cost to be cut rather than an asset. Morale shockingly bad. Annual reviews are 'massaged' to work them into a profile that is acceptable to HR rather than fairly rewarding those who have done a good job. Even those being made redundant are given statutory minimum payoff. New recruits are brought in on terrible terms and conditions.

4.0
May 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very strong corporate culture. Depth and breadth of human and information resources. One of the strongest brands in the world.

Cons

Constantly changing organization structure. Limited opportunity for growth into executive ranks. Marketing is viewed as a support function to Product Management. Regional marketing teams too closely aligned to Sales rather than worldwide Marketing teams.

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