IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,059 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 107,059 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
CEO approval
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Pros

Job flexibility, ability to work at home, set my own hours. Management cares about the work being done, not the when and where. We enjoy a lot of flexibility, which really helps with work life balance. It is okay to spend time during the day doing something at the kid's school as long as the work is made up in the evenings or weekends.

Cons

Too large, hard to make a difference, hard to change things. The structure and size is at times overwhelming...it can take days to find the right contact for a simple question, and one hand rarely know what the other is doing, leading to a lot of duplication of effort, and conflict.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It has a good brand name. The pay was decent, initially.

Cons

Projects are routinely undersold. Employees are placed in roles unsuitable for their career or skillset. Executive Management is out of touch with the day-to-day realities of running the company. There is a bureaucracy that only the government or the USSR can match. Despite management trumpeting efforts via the media on how IBM runs efficiently, the real story is often a far cry from what the media reports. It was only at IBM where I heard the acronym FUMU used - "Foul up, move up".

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