IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,184 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,184 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
3.0
Sep 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

- Work from home is available and encouraged - micro-management is a minimum - good with work/life balance - respectable place to work - on the job training for technical jobs is helpful and useful for your career

Cons

- salary is low and raises are very low even with great year-end ratings - expectations to always work over 40 hours per week - always cutting jobs, worry all the time about lay-offs - awards are far and few between - employee morale is terrible - education is cut every year - too many approvals are needed for everything (education, expenses, OT)

4.0
Sep 21, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I found IBM as a company with loads of enthusiastic people. There are always people around helping you out with all sorts of issues. Good live-work balance. IBM is a good starting point for a software development career and I found the knowledge I gathered there very useful throughout my later career. Very useful feedback throughout and at the end of my time at IBM.

Cons

There is too much management and processes for agile development which is certainly caused by the size of the company. Rather too many meetings through the work day occasionally causing delays on the actual delivery.

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