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 (4340) , Applications Developer (2902) , Software Developer (2411) , Project Manager (2320) , Senior Software Engineer (2033) , Senior Consultant (1845) , Consultant (1839) , IT Specialist (1112) , Application Developer (1104) , Associate Systems Engineer (1030) , Business Analyst (1025) , Systems Engineer (871) , Manager (850) , Managing Consultant (848) , 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 11020 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5030 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4355 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3395 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3287 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 5439 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2168 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1742 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 615 reviews)); "Middle and upper Management form a good old boys (and girls) club." ((in 456 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.

IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,132 total reviews)

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 107,132 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

Jun 15, 2023

In Terminal Decline

Associate partner

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Access to F100 C-Suite, Access to Resources

Cons

IBM has now been downsizing for well over a decade by laying off employees and spinning off whole business units. As a retired long-term IBM employee, it was sad to see the company go into freefall. There was huge pressure to generate revenue by cutting corners and using "bait and switch" with customers. IBM had gone through a period were they just laid off all of their older, experienced workers and had completely fumbled the transition to cloud. In my region IBM had had multiple projects cancelled due to poor performance due to understaffing. IBM responded by laying off more people and putting more pressure on the remaining staff to sell more, at any cost. IBM is now in a situation where they are an afterthought when compared to Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

1.0

Oct 24, 2022

Career Suicide

Data scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Great if you love the feeling of your brain decaying because we are in the 21st century and somehow this cutting edge Data Scientist job is a glorified excel data entry role - Great if you love feeling useless and helpless in your role due to circular management - Great if you love being screamed by superiors for not magically solving problems you asked for support on months ago but support was not offered - Great if you love facing micro-aggressions from your whole team because everyone hates each other because no one has any idea what's going on because no one takes accountability for anything; especially when you jump for a new opportunity and everyone starts spreading very true stories that definitely have factual backing behind them about you :) - Great if you love HR hounding you after you've left, claiming overpayment (pennies, btw, to this billion dollar corp)

Cons

None! See above; I clearly only had pros :)

1.0

Jun 14, 2022

IBM Refuses to Pay Sales Commission

Software client leader

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I had a great team and a great manager which made my experience at IBM very positive for the most part despite constant internal churn with reorganizations, leadership changes and compensations issues. However, after my departure I would not recommend working at IBM.

Cons

I left to take an opportunity outside of IBM in February of 2022. I had overall great experience working at IBM over my 3 years at the Company. Upon putting in my two weeks I was immediately notified with 1 hour that it would be my last day. I had ended the previous fiscal year FY 2021 at 176% of my sales quota. After waiting 6 plus months to receive payment of my commissions I was notified that I would not be compensated for any of the deals that closed in Q4 of FY'21 I was eliminated from the payment sales pool from one of my deals. The IBM team justified that because I was no longer working at the company in FY'22 I did not deserve to be compensated as part of the team. The deal was closed in December of 2021. On another deal, again, the IBM team justified that because I no longer work at IBM and I did not sign a quota for FY'22 that I am not entitled to compensation under the FY'21 compensation plan which I did sign. IBM is notorious for setting up Sales Plans and not compensating its Sales Team in a fair manner. In addition, IBM does not pay on time. IBMer's are still waiting to be compensated for December 2021 commissions.

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