IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,253 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,253 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
Jan 13, 2009

balanced place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

learning and education and growth option

Cons

not much diffrentiaition amongst people

4.0
Jan 12, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable - fits the "just do my job" kind of person. Great access to self-study resources, if you find the time. I miss my ThinkPad. I miss Sametime. It's a great tool to connect with any subject matter expert in the organisation. And they're usually quite friendly.

Cons

Stable - don't rock the boat culture. IBM brags of innovation and all but the culture doesn't reflect it. Many good ideas never saw the light-of-day. Malaysia was (is??) seen as a low-cost and hence, unfairly, low-skilled location. Great developers never got the recognition they deserved and have since left. I myself have been passed over for a Bravo award just because of the numbers game. Some managers need to get past their obsession with the hierarchical organisation.

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