IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,067 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 107,067 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
Oct 23, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

- Very cordial and upbeat team members - Extremely flexible work hours, since I worked remotely and had only one mandatory meeting a week. - Results-based expectations, providing even more flexibility.

Cons

- Lack of visibility of the management level above those I directly reported to. - Generally feeling out of the loop on many issues, though staff meetings helped considerably.

4.0
Oct 8, 2009

Great place to work and good career opportunities

Anonymous employee
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Pros

IBM is a great place to work and you will have good career opportunities and more possibilities to grow up the ladder.

Cons

From a compensation perspective, IBM is not a good pay master. I know people making 15 - 20% more that what I make at IBM for the similar job

4.0
Sep 30, 2009

IBM is good company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I joined IBM because of the variety of job opportunities within the company and it certainly delivered that. During my almost 25 year career, I was in sales, programming, marketing and management. They provided me with paid time off for personal reasons multiple times. Though they laid me off, the separation package was very fair.

Cons

It's a very large company with lots of politics. The best people aren't always the ones promoted to management and executive positions. Communication can be difficult because of the matrix management and, again, politics.

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