IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,148 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 107,148 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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107K reviews
2.0
May 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent people and products. Talented SME's and specialists in every area of IT. Wide range of products.

Cons

Unbelievably complex and incoherent management process. Lots of empty suits. Low morale with ongoing layoffs of talented and experienced people. The company is slow to react - to customers and industry. Many software products are too complex to be useful to anyone but the most sophisticated enterprises.

2.0
Apr 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In my department, work-life balance is good, although this varies wildly across IBM. People are nice and it's not cut throat. Pretty good benefits -- 3 weeks vacation, 401k match (but only matched at the end of the year), good health insurance, 12 weeks maternity/6 weeks paternity leave (none of the great benefits our competitors give though -- no free food, shuttle buses, social events)

Cons

Very poor manager training leads to terrible managers and lots of politics. Very slow upward mobility. Lower salaries than competitors. Not "millennial" friendly -- feels very old and stodgy, we have lots of millennial panels but their recommendations don't go anywhere at all. Experience is extremely dependent on who your manager is and what department you are in. Constant budget cuts lead to terrible HR coverage, bad office spaces, low morale. Ironically for being an IT company we have slow and clunky internal software and tools.

3.0
Mar 30, 2017

It pays the bills!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People you work with, tales of the past

Cons

Stress, Constant Worry, Low Pay Increase

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