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 (2412) , 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 11045 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5041 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4357 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3428 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3279 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 5381 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2162 reviews)); "Low pay with joke of a raise every year (if you even get one)." ((in 1990 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1747 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 617 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

(107,137 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 107,137 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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Reviews by job title

107K reviews

3.0

Feb 8, 2015

Exciting world-class industrial research environment, marred by mediocre (or worse) treatment of employees by management

Research staff member

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Exciting opportunity to collaborate with world-class researchers covering a broad array of disciplines, focused on solving real-world problems. * Expectations include publishing papers in high-quality venues, allowing one to maintain good contact (and possibly even collaborations) with academic community

Cons

* Employee evaluations based on a quota system that other companies like Microsoft have now abandoned because it has been proven to hurt employee morale; employees can receive low evaluations for excellent work, and incentives can thwart collaboration among employees * High-level corporate strategy of cutting way to growth seems wrong-headed and unsustainable, and has negative impact on Research including tight budgets and shortened time horizons for Research * High-level corporate budget-tightening has in some cases translated to less freedom in Research, with some managers treating their teams like military command-and-control organizations

IBM Response

10y

Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. Given IBM's transformation and what we've heard from many IBMers, we’ve kicked off a brand new approach to performance management for 2016 and beyond. It's called Checkpoint, and it was co-created by IBMers for IBMers to reflect the way all of us work. What's the focus? Continuous feedback; a nimble, real-time approach to setting goals; and year-end evaluation on not just what we accomplished but how we accomplished it. And, perhaps best of all, we're no longer defined by a single rating.

2.0

Nov 25, 2014

IBM Brno - Czech Republic

It specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- good start of career - great colleagues - if you will decide to do something else, you can move to other department - multicultural environment - ability to work on new projects

Cons

- none benefits - none pay rise (what you will deal at beginning at interview you will get forever) - none paid team-buildings - managers do care about themselves not people, they will put you down jut to go higher (even they are wrong) - cost center - company doesn't invest into people at all, high fluctuation - total chaos, nobody knows where to find what - their Global Delivery Framework - GDF - doesn't work at all in reality - it is their fatal mistake

4.0

Nov 18, 2014

32 years at IBM

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

work life balance for me was great. OK management.

Cons

Low pay and benefits not as good as they were early on. Opportunity for advancement almost non-existent

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