IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,239 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,239 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
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

IBM is a big and diverse company with great work-life balance. IBM research, as a industrial research lab, still offer sufficient opportunities for publication. The managers and evaluation systems appreciate external recognition from research communities. The employee is also able to collaborate with colleagues from different areas such as business department, software development and others. I also like the internal courses for your own career development.

Cons

A number of researchers are working on pure development projects, which is supposed to be completed in the software development department. The company is large and bureaucratic which slows down the decision process. No free perks around.

1.0
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to learn from others

Cons

Focus is given to those who only exist to contribute to IBM, without regards for any personal life. In other words while IBM touts "work/life balance" as being important, it actually encourages an "all work / no personal llfe" atmosphere. The moment a person realizes that they need to slow down and re-claim their personal life, IBM loses interest in that person and labels them as "making too much money...", hoping that the person will eventually get frustrated from a lack of forward financial progress, and simply quit. Alternatively, if the person doesn't quit, they get laid off.

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