IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,072 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 107,072 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
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

Big company, lots of resources and a lot of opportunity to try different things.

Cons

Too big and bloated, finance runs things on a quarter by quarter basis, often not taking a longer term view of the business. Trying to govern everything, with a resulting lack of innovation. IBM also has a big focus on IT certifications, which often do not have a bearing on reality or real world knowledge and experience.

1.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When you first join IGS, usually through an 'outsourcing deal', expectations of career advancement run very high. However, as time goes on, these hopes are slowly and methodically squashed. One day you wake up and realize you work for "little blue" and thus considered an unwanted stepchild of the real "Big Blue" IBM, which I hear is a nice place to work.

Cons

Raises, most often below the rate of inflation, are few and far between. Benefits, like most everywhere else, are dwindiling. The company can no longer afford a decent benefit package because of the poor management decisions made in the past. Starting out as a person that very much enjoyed technical activities, I now create superflouous paperwork and engage in meaningless tasks that appear to be adding value in the eyes of my customer. CYA is the name of the game. If IBM looks good, then all is well, right?

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility. You can work from home and live anywhere.

Cons

A HUGE percentage of the jobs are being oursourced to other countries. There is little funding for employee education. This is not a people company anymore. They just want you to work overtime all the time. There is constantly this unspoken message that you better be happy that you have a job because we can outsource your job any day now.

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