IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,102 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 107,102 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
1.0
Apr 3, 2017

Run the other direction!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay, fair amount of flexibility depending on your job role

Cons

I joined this company just a few years ago with high hopes that it would live up to its name and (former) reputation. I couldn't be more disappointed with my experience here as a "millennial" excited to grow a career here. The culture is terrible, the executive management is greedy and out of touch, and the constant layoffs and disregard for the employee (and customer for that matter) result in the lowest morale I have ever seen in a company. Since I started 2 years ago, almost everyone I have met has been laid off without explanation or beat them to it by leaving on their own. Do not believe the propaganda and run the other way to an employer that appreciates you and compensates you accordingly.

3.0
Jan 31, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

-The designers, PM's, Managers and Front-End Devs are very smart and very welcoming -Beautiful studio -Great healthcare (I have the best plan with only $350 deductible) -Great work/life balance (varies from team to team)

Cons

-High turn over -The pay. I found out with 10+ years of experience I get paid 20K more than a college grad. I got a bonus last year ($1500) and none this year. Pay raise of 5% which wasn't bad as a general statistic but terrible when you look at my base pay. IBM is investing in college grads by trying to pay them more... news flash they leave anyway and then so do your Senior/Lead designers because you pay them an embarrassing amount. You blew your wad on the new shiny toy out of college that bailed 1 year later. Congrats. -The back end devs are determined to kill the world of good design. We cannot make a wonderful experience and have it be implemented in a reasonable amount of time. By "reasonable" I mean small CSS changes take 2 months and CRITICAL features to help us even half way compete with competitors like AWS take a year. It's filled with old dinosaurs developers who think that they can design and we are just worthless people that wear skinny pants. -Offering Management (OM) is mostly useless. I have met one or two that were amazing at their job, the rest cannot understand what their job actually is. They are not art directors and they are supposed to deliver to us the main goal of what the design is supposed to be based on actual market research. Most of them have zero clue what actual market research is or what is valid.

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