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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,331 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 107,331 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
      Apr 26, 2009

      Incredible potential as a company, many brilliant employees but the shortsighted executives have got to smarten up.

      Program manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great exposure to large corporate matrix. Lots of opportunities to learn both through internal training and collaboration with other groups throughout the company. It is truly global and you get to meet a lot of very smart professionals from all over the world. Traveling was a perk but is harder to come by in these difficult economic times.

      Cons

      Things seem to (like in so many large corps) driven excessively by qtr to qtr profits and share price. Rather then take a bad quarter for the trade-off of a longer term growth/investment for the future. This can sometimes have a negative effect on morale.

      4.0
      Apr 26, 2009

      Its nice to work here

      Customer engineer ii in san jose, ca: (past employee - 2009)
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Pros customer engineer work is fun & customers are glad to see you. a breadth of stores and banks means you do not get bored.

      Cons

      Cons emphasis on numbers, quantity not quality. management expects things to get fixed, with no regards to time/distance,manpower resources, support, training, parts needed. they expect you to meet 3 numbers (86%): a/ get to the site within 1/2 hrs. b/get it fixed now/today. c/numbers of stores (min 5 a day) my territory was 2hrs long & 1 hr wide. I spend average 3 hrs driving a day, and still be expected to meet numbers. management is nut: one day i was told to work til you drop (respond to ATM service 7/24/365), next day "no OT without approval from manager" company release shoddy/unreliable machinery (check processing module) to bank of america, without any training to field service engineers. Then months later were forced to send them to training only when we have to revisit the same machine twice a day (because engineers don't know how to fix)

      4.0
      Apr 26, 2009

      A Great Company to work.

      Network services specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The biggest IT Company in the world. Great name in CV for your career. Great career opportunity Satisfied working enviroment & salary. A lot of things to learn & experience.

      Cons

      Junior managers doesnt know what they are doing and also I'm not satisfied with their management skills. They working for the greatest IT Company. I'm not sure they'd noticed this or not. -You are expected to be a pre-sales expert , delivery expert and also post-sales expert. Are you kidding? either your sales abilities are good or your technical abilities are good so you want to be a technical employee or sales employee you cannot be good both of them at the same time.....

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