IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,230 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 107,230 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
Oct 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

IBM has many opportunities for software engineers, ranging across a broad set of product teams within IBM's software group. There are many opportunities for growth, and innovation.

Cons

There is really no single valid opinion about working at IBM, since almost half a million employees world wide have different environments, managers, etc. Working with remote colleagues is mostly fine, but can sometimes be a challenge. In the wort cases, I have seen teams of 10 or 12 people, none of whom work in the same location. This can be challenging.

5.0
Oct 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great people to work with Broad worldwide opportunity Currently IBM has superb long-term vision, investment, and is executing

Cons

Huge company, takes long time to do some things Many people may be quite slow to adopt new technologies and trends

4.0
Oct 12, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

This is for what we call Supplementals 12month contract with 6 month extension....read the CON first Now, once you've proven yourself that you can keep scheds, have good feedback from the "lead" on whatever project and also have a few jobs involving subbing for a Deskside person going to vaca, they will ask you if you want a steady 40hr position and be a perm deskside. that's what im doing now, ive completed the initial 12 months, gave me a 6month ext, the client i work for doing support gave back positive feedback and im doing a 3yr supplemental contract now. once you get 3yrs, which is a bit rare for most Supplementals, you'll get the full benefits package with 401k and health. my manager is pretty easy going, 98% hands off, lets me work and just emails me a few times a month. so i do like the job...though now...a few yrs of doing deskside support...of course im aiming to go higher including the pay rate...ill take advantage of the free microsoft cert training theyve got and will ask to be a regular IBMer

Cons

i thought i was going to start doing deskside support right away but nope, you start off doing ad-hoc stuff. installing POS for clients, doing servers, networks (add/move/change). many late nights and early mornings. hours were sort of up and down, one week id be doing 45-50hrs, another 4-8 initially. my very first job was offsite to work with a group of ppl ive never met and install POS. lol i had no exp with POS, but i was good with comp hardware so its was pretty easy, but i felt like being thrown straight to the fire, all good it was my highest paying job as a 18yr old

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