Skip to contentSkip to footer
      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      IBM

      Engaged Employer

      IBM reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,128 total reviews)
      avatar

      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 107,128 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).

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Reviews by job title

      107K reviews
      2.0
      Dec 15, 2009

      Caution! DO NOT WORK at IBM. Average Pay. Excessive workload. You work will be outsourced eventually.

      Advisory software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work From Home. Excellent technical growth opportunities.

      Cons

      IBM will make you work like a Donkey. Work life balance is good only when things are easy for management. When it is crunch time, the managers will demand that you work day and night, weekends as well. You will then be told that you did an average job. Many managers don't have a clue of what their employees are coding. Many managers have no programming experience so they can't evaluate your pains. Management collects huge bonuses based on profit sharing. But most employees won't see any of that $. If you have no self respect and can tolerate annual humiliation, sure go ahead and work for IBM.

      2.0
      Nov 3, 2009

      Slave labor

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      They had good benifits like 3 weeks of vacation and health coverage. My manager allowed me to work from home for 3 years.

      Cons

      Terrible pay. No more work from home. Senior management doesn't seem to care that all the talent is leaving and new customers are signing with IBM less than 20% of the time due to a terrible customer service record.

      1.0
      Sep 28, 2009

      IBM - Review

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Many good people to work with. - They are fairly flexible when you have a personal commitment to take care of. - Access to many employees with a wealth of experience (although that is dwindling...)

      Cons

      - They take advantage of the employees. - Every year it's work harder (more unpaid OT) for the same or less money. - No matter how good a performer you are, you can/will get replaced with a "global resource" who can't even come close to doing the job at the same level of performance. - For those remaining and having to rely on support from the "global resources", it becomes very difficult to get your own job done. Before you could count on your support groups to do their part, you knew who you could contact and who was responsible. But with the employees constantly changing that is no longer the case. Many things fall through the cracks and management turns a blind eye and just wants to know why the deadline wasn't met.

      Viewing 220 - 222 of 107,128 Reviews
      Related searches: IBM jobs | IBM salaries | IBM benefits | IBM interviews | IBM conversations
      ReviewsIBM reviews

      Glassdoor has 131,516 IBM reviews submitted anonymously by IBM employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if IBM is right for you.