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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(11,955 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 29, 2025

Salary

Recommend
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Pros

If you build a good network moving from one project to another is easy.

Cons

Once your salary is fixed, your are neglible unless you are promoted, otherwise you stay 10 or 15 years does not matter your salary is almost same as where you started.

3.0
Jul 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

My company was acquired by IBM. The first year the commission potential was great.

Cons

After the first year, earning potential dwindles. If you like a really big org, it's good - lots of support, prof development, etc. But coming from a small company it was culture shock - felt like I was required to have 8 other IBM people in all my client meetings - crazy.

3.0
Jul 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great technology; nice people; excellent benefits and good compensation

Cons

They make it really hard to hire someone because of all the steps you have to go through -- good candidates will take another offer because they're tired of waiting for IBM to go through the process.

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