IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,136 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 107,136 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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3.0
Jul 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many opportunities if you want to travel. Working directly for a client can be rewarding.

Cons

Many opportunities, BUT you have to travel. There is really no work-life balance. If you are supporting commercial clients, the clients come first above everything else. If you are in the I/T side of the business, you have no work-life balance. The 100% expectation is to be "on the road". Nothing else matters and there is no sympathy from exec management. IBM has spun the media on this and it is beyond me why the covers do not get blown off on this issue.

3.0
Jul 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's software technology and patent portfolio are impressive. At IBM you can work on software projects ranging from mainframes to PCs and the disciplines vary from firmware, operating system and compiler development. Development labs are scattered but multi site software development has been something that IBM has always embraced and known how to do. Being close to IBM Almaden was good as we could cross polinate with research and bring some of the research ideas into products, sometimes very successfully but other times not so. IBM seems to have its fingers in every pie and this was one of the reasons why it appealed to me to work there.

Cons

Outsourcing threats. Building up teams outside of the United States in China and India.

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