Does IBM pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, IBM employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at IBM. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at IBM?

78% of IBM employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated IBM 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at IBM?

Software Engineer (4339) , Applications Developer (2901) , Software Developer (2411) , Project Manager (2319) , Senior Software Engineer (2033) , Senior Consultant (1842) , Consultant (1837) , IT Specialist (1112) , Application Developer (1103) , Associate Systems Engineer (1030) , Business Analyst (1025) , Systems Engineer (871) , Manager (850) , Managing Consultant (847) , Intern (821)

What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 10997 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5008 reviews)); "IBM Canada provides flexible work hours and one can work from home almost all the time." ((in 4357 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3457 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3315 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5429 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2161 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2039 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1756 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 607 reviews))

What are employees saying about IBM layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about IBM layoffs and their outlook for job security at IBM in 2026.

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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,087 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Culture & values

4.0

Work/Life balance

3.8

Career opportunities

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Senior management

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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1.0

Mar 21, 2021

IBM CICs are the worst

Data engineer

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Pros

-Remote work during covid pandemic

Cons

-low pay -high turnover rate -trained data analyst, but title remains data engineer -can't take concerns to management, they will assume quitting is your only option -12 hr days depending on your project -frequent project hopping -projects not always geared towards your skills or career -in office management staff separate themselves from employees -micro management from certain managers -raises are low and keep you under average pay until you've reached 4 years -CICs are located in economically distressed areas for tax breaks. This means although you have a greater number of minorities working, a large chunk of minorities within the greater company are making less than the US average for their job role.

1.0

Sep 10, 2018

IBM CIC (Baton Rouge)

Applications developer

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Educational Resources (maybe) I am finally out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cons

- Below the minimum industry compensation - Weak benefits - Long hours - 100% travel (Contract specifies only 50%) - Terrible management (care only about numbers and will tell you whatever you want to hear) Never share anything and never trust them. I've seen people get burned because they were naive and trustworthy - Baton Rouge, LA (No offence to this city, but NO thank you, never again. This city is the kingdom of boredom and depression) I bet if the center was located in New Orleans it would have been less depressing. - Almost no chance to transfer (Beware, the unspoken policy to transfer is that you have to spend at least 2 years in CIC. Never specified in your contract. So was caught totally by surprise) - No career path. You will be hired as a developer and will perform analyst work instead or/and vice versa. The list of Cons can go on even further, but I just wanted to highlight the major issues with this specific location.

1.0

Jul 14, 2015

Visual Designer

Visual designer

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Pros

There were little to no pros when working for IBM Design. The biggest pro was that I got to work from home, and that got very old very fast.

Cons

- Isolated team environment, everyone I worked with was remote. - IBM Design has little practice in creating a working formula for designers to succeed in a completely developer driven culture. - Management is a confused bunch of people that have a very hard time helping their team succeed. - IBM Design studio in Austin, TX is way overcrowded. I am sure that they are not meeting fire code standards. - Almost all products that you could work on are completely lame. Recruitment lies to your face throughout the process telling you that when being deployed onto a project they take what you would like to work on into consideration. - 3 month Design Camp is like a shortened college class that you get paid for. This was extremely boring and monotonous. - Most importantly : as a designer at IBM Design you have very little say on the projects you are creating. Everyone in the studio puts on a daily happy face as they are all hating the projects they work on and trying to do anything to switch products. This makes the workplace a horrid environment to be in daily, with very little work actually getting done.

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