IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,286 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 107,286 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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4.0
Feb 13, 2009
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Pros

IBM is a large company with vast amounts of talent. You can learn a lot and have lots of room to grow.

Cons

The company is so large that there can be huge differences in employee satisfaction based largely on the first line managers. I have seen comparable employees with large differences in perceived value and salaries.

4.0
Feb 12, 2009
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Pros

Great Research Environment. Great people to work with, and great managers. The research teams all have top-rate researchers, and the managers all seem to know how to run their groups efficiently. I've never worked anywhere where people meet their software development deadlines like clockwork. The work-life balance is pretty good there too - I was in to work on a few weekends and I don't think I saw anyone else in the office.

Cons

It may be slightly bureaucratic for silicon valley types used to a start-up culture. Moving up in the company (as well as the financial rewards that come with it) seems to take time.

3.0
Feb 12, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the brightest people that I've ever worked with work at IBM. IBM has invented a number of significant, important parts of the Information Technology industry. This includes relational database technology and hard disk drive technology. IBM is one of the few companies that actually performs the "Research" portion of "Research and Development".

Cons

Like many large companies, IBM is laden with bureaucracy and often inane procedure. Also, it is completely beyond understanding why a company that has reported record earnings, record profits and has a positive outlook for 2009 would - one day after it's proclamation to the financial community - commence laying off 5,000 of its employees, most of whom were real contributors to the company's success. IBM's approach to this latest round of layoffs was very calculating, ensuring that no single location was affected in a significant enough way to require additional notice or pay.

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