IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,087 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 107,087 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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107K reviews
2.0
Sep 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Company with a big name, looks good on your resume. Solid benefits, especially medical. Would help you with immigration issues (e.g., doing a Green Card for you), if it is required.

Cons

Huge bureaucracy. The company tries to squeeze more and more from its employees: most departments that I saw were understaffed and overloaded. The employee population is aging: fewer young people want to work at IBM. Too much management, too few people doing real work. The company has a very complex and burdensome work accomplishment/assessment yearly cycle, so that employees mostly think about how their yearly review will turn out. Hence a lot of time is taken by the efforts to make the review results look good, rather then solving the real problems. IBM T.J.Watson Research Center used to be a great research lab up until 2002-2003, now it more resembles a subsidiary of IBM Software Division, at best, or a bunch of software engineers used to be thrown to plumb holes of other division's lagging projects, at worst.

1.0
Nov 20, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I can say very few good things. The only thing I can say is that the leadership is so lazy, inept, and unorganized that you have a lot of work-life balance and free time. Get a side hustle, but also expect to be cold called at 9pm while you’re at dinner.

Cons

Project managers have no ambition and emotional leadership is rampant throughout the organization. SAP training is over-emphasized, but there are few available SAP roles for Associates. Expect to waste your time learning things that will be obsolete by the time you are able to use them. Upward mobility is nonexistent. Nearly everyone is paid the bare minimum, so nearly everyone severely lacks motivation. Those who appear to be motivated seem to be complacent with mediocrity or afraid of dismissal. IBM pretends to be modern but is stuck in 1992. If you are a recent grad considering working here, I strongly suggest that you reconsider.

1.0
Jan 27, 2023

Trash Company with too many managers

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Pros

IBM gives you more and more work, but due to inflation and no pay raises for years upon year, you end up making less and less money. Is this a pro? Of course not, but glassdoor forces you put something down as a Pro.

Cons

Lots of incompetent managers. Management does no real work. They just cook up bad ideas about things they know nothing about. Then makes their team implement their bad ideas. Management is getting rid a lot of US workers and moving these jobs to other countries like India and Mexico to save a buck, while holding on to their own jobs. They threatened their employees to get a vaccine or stop working. They made a vaccine policy based on Joe Biden's unconstitutional mandate. They likely did this due to further reduce employees numbers in the US. IBM lost employees without finding replacements for them. The work gets passed to current employees, and IBM refused to compensate employees for taking on additional work duties. IBM made employees take Diversity & Inclusion training similar to Coca-Cola's training that educated employees "To Be Less White" I seen IBM's first hand practices of hiring large amounts of young employees. They called it Vitality Hiring. After the new younger employees got their training from older, more seasoned workers, IBM would have massive amounts of layoffs. Of course, the older higher paid employees get laid off, while the new young employees were safe from the layoff. IBM is a disgraceful company, don't be fooled by their fake reputation of being a honorable company. They are far from it.

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