IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,066 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 107,066 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 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Top Notch technology and R&D, Best Patent performance for more than 10 years, great portfolio, great elearning and employability activities. Good long term strategy defined by Sam - but sometimes the translation into activities in offices outside the US does not clearly demonstrate where the company is headed.

Cons

Bureaucratic, too many processes and stiff expense management sometimes keeping sales people to travel. Restructuring and change management is sometime kept as a top level managmeent initiative and taking employees onto that journey requires a closer knowledge of where the pain is. Discussions about chang ein pension, cut of salaris, unreachable targets does not add to the credibility of senior management.

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Career opportuinities, knowledge sharing, skill growth

Cons

Bureaucratic, run from US, lack of marketing

1.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well if you are in Global Services, and in the US. their is no good reason, all you are doing is dodging the big blue bullet if you still have your job. If you are outside of the US things are great for those people.

Cons

IBM as a whole is outsourcing and downsizing its US workforce. Each Day I see more and more of my colleagues lose their jobs. Its disgusting, most of the people posting good reviews on this board are kidding themselves. IBM is not the great company these folks say it is.

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