IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,243 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 107,243 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 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big company - so you have lots of colleagues. A good part of them is very motivated.

Cons

Very strict management, sometimes you have no chance to develop a project because it does not fit someones senior managements vision. Though several mergers there are employee-blocks/LOBs/internal comanies working against each other which is disgusting.

2.0
Jan 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IBM has a good reputation; there is a variety of jobs available within IBM (this was the case in 2007 ...); IBM offers excellent opportunities to get the foot in the business world (I started as a student)

Cons

You are only a number and not being valued as an employee. It is all about "headcounts". Promotions will be granted on higher levels, on middle levels (e.g. IT Specialist) promotions are rare. As mentioned before, IBM is good to start but not good to climb higher on the career ladder.

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