IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,093 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 107,093 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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2.0
May 22, 2016

OK

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is alright.

Cons

Managers promise promotions to employees in return for the employees to exceed their quota but promotions are then put on hold because budgets are supposedly not figured out. Extremely high lack of transparency.

1.0
Jan 27, 2016

A tech company with a strong neanderthal culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Their job descriptions are great. If you like to have your job description to say amazing things, this is the place for you (unless you're actually interested in the content of the actual role)

Cons

Dinosaur culture. Almost everyone you will meet working at IBM started their careers at IBM and there is a reason for that. The employees or senior management don't really have exposure to the real world and they just don't know how bad the place is. Things like the lack of coffee or proper drinking water for employees do not bother these people because they haven't seen any better. The place is a dump. Culture is awful and from the actual work you do (which most of the times is completely meaningless, because of the antiquated management and reporting systems in place) to the treatment you get at the cafeteria (where you are a paid customer but the guy at the grill is out smoking while the cafeteria is open and the cash register person is nowhere to be found because you're in the middle of some kind of forest and there is nowhere else to go) everything is awful.. but because nobody at the company has seen any better, nothing ever changes. If you come here with prior work experience, nobody will care about or even understand what you did before. Management isn't interested in the real world outside, and the results they produce show it.

1.0
Nov 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1. If you don't have a degree or if you have a criminal record, this is the place for you. They will hire you. 2. You can do nothing at all for your entire 'career' and still get paid. Nobody cares what you do. Performance is not acknowledged so you might as well do nothing. 3. You cannot get fired. Even if you commit a crime in public, even if you never hit your targets, no matter what you do, you will not get fired. Simply because nobody cares what you do or who you are.

Cons

1. Management has all the power and will go to incredible lengths to destroy the whole organization. 2. Long, cumbersome processes for literally everything. Getting my P45 form took 4 months. 3. 90% of the employees have been there less than 1 year. They cannot retain employees because it is a horrible, depressing place. The 10% who are there more than 1 year either have no degree, a criminal record, or are too old to be employed anywhere else. 4. Food is disgusting and crazy expensive. 3 euro for a coffee, 8 euro for lunch. 5. It's in the middle of nowhere (Mulhuddart) and you have to pay 7 euro a day for the shuttlebus. 6. No health insurance, no benefits, no stock plan, absolutely zero benefits. 7. Would not even want my worst enemy to work here. The IBM Digital Sales Centre in Dublin is worse than death.

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