IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,079 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 107,079 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
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many opportunities to work in diverse areas in a large company with many interesting clients. Flexibility to work own hours / telecommuting. Interesting and varied technology. Within IBM research, many internal and external technical talks from academia and different parts of IBM.

Cons

Cafeteria food is expensive and sucks. Downgrading of 401K and pension benefits. Mandatory use of Lotus Notes.

3.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has a huge number of fingers in lots and lots of different pies and there is the potential to move around within the company to avoid stagnation.

Cons

Reality never lives up to promises. Continual trimming of resource to make projects more efficient means frequent unpaid overtime required and eliminates the possibility of doing more interesting work in favour of maintainance cycles and at best, minor incremental improvements. Worst of all, even where there is scope for improving efficiency to help mitigate these problems in later cycles there's no time available to implement it.

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