IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,214 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 107,214 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
1.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A great place if you want to telecommute, their virtual services are second to none.

Cons

Management is just plain incompetent at all levels. You'll never get a decent raise. They expect you to work 80 hour weeks in most cases. You'll get no respect from any level of management and in many cases clients are so fed up with IBM that they are just waiting for their SLAs to expire and then they go with someone else. I've seen it happen over 8 times in the last 5 years. It is absolutely appalling.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has a huge number of great people. In general everyone helps one another in spite of any pointless control rules. When we want to get things done we just do it. The spirit that forms in teams and the global reach each team can have is very inspiring. Its the people who you learn to rely on that make it worth working there.

Cons

There is an old fashioned mentality one of measuring as an obsession. Very often the things measured and the processes that must be followed bear no resemblance to the value people are generating. Too often the old fashioned management in control employees as resources comes into play. The reality is everyone works for the same company but these artificial power structures can seriously dent success for teams and individuals. If your first line manager does not like what you do, you may be able to still get things done bring value to clients etc, but you will get hit by the ridiculous personal business commitments review process that can be skewed any direction to fit a nominal bell curve distribution of performance required from up on high.

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