IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,125 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 107,125 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
Apr 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

In my department, work-life balance is good, although this varies wildly across IBM. People are nice and it's not cut throat. Pretty good benefits -- 3 weeks vacation, 401k match (but only matched at the end of the year), good health insurance, 12 weeks maternity/6 weeks paternity leave (none of the great benefits our competitors give though -- no free food, shuttle buses, social events)

Cons

Very poor manager training leads to terrible managers and lots of politics. Very slow upward mobility. Lower salaries than competitors. Not "millennial" friendly -- feels very old and stodgy, we have lots of millennial panels but their recommendations don't go anywhere at all. Experience is extremely dependent on who your manager is and what department you are in. Constant budget cuts lead to terrible HR coverage, bad office spaces, low morale. Ironically for being an IT company we have slow and clunky internal software and tools.

3.0
Mar 30, 2017

It pays the bills!

Recommend
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Pros

People you work with, tales of the past

Cons

Stress, Constant Worry, Low Pay Increase

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IBM Response
9y
Thank you for your candid review and feedback, it helps us learn about specific areas of the work experience we can improve.
4.0
Oct 4, 2016

20 years with IBM

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

quality of people is stellar (fantastic teamwork); flexibility to telecommunite, relatively stable work environment; majority of my years with IBM were great with little complaints

Cons

IBM's compensation lacking vs. the competition; options for telecommuting appear to be going away (at least in my former group_

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IBM Response
9y
Thank you for sharing your mostly positive experience during your tenure at IBM. We agree that IBMers are the best! IBMers are now working in new ways with smaller and self-directed teams. They are co-creating in teams along-side clients and the business. IBM is also investing in wonderful new tools and modern workspaces. Most of our teams are already working this way and our clients are realizing the benefits.
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