IBM Database Engineer reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(209 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

55% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Database Engineer employees have rated IBM with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 209 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Database Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Database Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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209 reviews
3.0
Aug 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on a resume. Good starting salary. Great co-workers. Flexible work schedule.

Cons

Salary cut from year one. Furloughs every year. Double digit erosion of salary even as the company posts record breaking profits year after year. De-motivation seems to be a built in theme to encourage you to leave. Middle management is lost as out of touch decisions roll downhill from above. Absolutely no incentive, monetarily or otherwise to improve. Clients are not a priority, only stockholders. May not be so impressive on a resume for long given their continuing effort to establish a horrible reputation as a bad company to work for.

3.0
May 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Enviroment is amazing here. I love WORK From Home option.

Cons

Salary is not good Here

1.0
Mar 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big company and good medical benefits. Remote working environment, co-workers are nice and cooperate, Open documents environment, good place to do nothing.

Cons

no career growth, no path for growth, quarterly layoffs, offshore US IT staff, layoff US employees every quarter, minumum bonus, no salary increase for years.

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