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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,327 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      77% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,327 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
      Apr 9, 2009

      Working for IBM is a mixed a bag. Brand name but low pay, no career path, and extremely matrixed selling environment.

      Software sales specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Brand name, experience working for a large corporation, and resume builder. IBM sales is highly regarded but in order to make more money you'll need to leave IBM. The sales plans are not generous, and re-organizations and layoffs are envogue.

      Cons

      raise freezes, low compensation, no career path, extremely matrixed, and constantly changing management. The IBM matrix requires you to have far too many sales cadences. You'll spend most of your time reporting to layers management and mending internal IBM issues than selling. Even so, working together as one IBM is a constant challenge as self interest among the brands, and pillars makes the selling process much more complex. For such a large corporation, there is far too much finger pointing and not enough internal coordination/cooperation, which wastes far too much time.

      1.0
      Apr 8, 2009

      IBM has no loyalty to its employees. If you work in the US for IBM----kiss you job goodbye.

      Managing consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The pay is competitive. IBM is well known name (and used to be respected).

      Cons

      There is no loyalty from IBM to its employees. You are treated strictly as a number. Management does not manage to the job, it manages to the dollar. IBM has gone from being one of the best, most sought after companies to work for, to being a pariah.

      4.0
      Apr 8, 2009

      IBM rewards it's top contributors and is sensitive to work/life balance.

      Advisory hardware engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      IBM has a large global presence and can whether a downtown in the economy better than smaller companies. Also, IBM does reward it's top contributors well. And finally, IBM does try to be sensitive to the "work life balance".

      Cons

      As a big company, it's sometime hard to "stay in the loop", i.e. communication becomes more difficult as IBM has a large number of sites spread out geographically with even small teams tending to be geographically separated.

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