IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,067 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 107,067 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 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Solid, stable place to start a career. You can grow as fast as you drive yourself... but motivation must be internally driven. Experience will widely vary by which division that you land in. Services businesses typically place a large emphasis on number of billable hours worked. Systems division is always trying to run a more lean business and do more with less. Software is not uniform as a number of current employees were brought on through numerous acquisitions over the last 5-10 years.

Cons

Salary is not competitive with market rates if you stay more than a few years. Constant revamping of employee benefit programs makes you wonder if HR has anything better to do.

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with really smart people Having the flexibility to work from anywhere Ability to write my own job description Ability to be an individual

Cons

bureaucracy PBCs bureaucracy Yes, that's pretty much all I have to say--I think bureaucracy sums it up pretty well, and in an international corporation of over 300,000 employees, I suppose it's pretty difficult to get away from the problems of bureaucracy.

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