IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,070 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 107,070 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
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

IBM offers excellent opportunites for career growth.

Cons

IBM touts a "Work/Life Balance" policy, yet expects its employees to work an average of 5 hours of overtime per week. IBM also recently reclassified over 7000 IT Specialists from salary to hourly, reduced their pay by 15%, and told them they could make it up with overtime. However, that overtime is not available on all contracts.

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

IBM issues laptops to all of their employees and depending on your manager this makes working remotely fairly easy to do. When it comes to HR related tasks IBM seems to trust their employees and their managers as vacation/sick time is not centrally tracked.

Cons

IBM is an extremely large company and as such sometimes suffers from its size. Because of its large size the company has implemented many process/requirements that cause inefficiencies in day to day work. Compensation and pay are awarded based on a pool system that is sub-divided as you move down the organization which results in limited flexibility for managers to reward top performing employees. Additionally as the company is spread across the globe you may be working with people who you've never met face to face for years.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Brand and company recognition and pride from those who never worked here. They do offer some nice perks, such as work life balance, but be assured, it works in the company's favor.

Cons

Bottom line driven at the expense of resources (humans). I have been strung along with ok appraisals for 7 years, but no pay increases. Great place for those with poor memory, as you hear the same excuse year after year.

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