IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,178 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 107,178 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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1.0
Jun 17, 2008
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Pros

Work at home. Flexible workplace and average pay. We used to have the best training but no more.

Cons

Too many to list but here are my top 10 1. Way too much red tape and unecessary daily report building. It is like living in a Dilbert cartoon everyday. 2. Leadership and innovation is punished NOT rewarded. 3. Absolutely no fairness in raises or promotions. Advancement by pure kiss-ass. 4. Very little substance at the executive leadership level. 5. No respect for senior experience level employees and way too much focus on babies right out of MBA School. 6. Did I say poor executive management? 7. Layoffs of lower level people first and zero executives get fired. 8. Almost every senior executive that leaves IBM fails miserably in the real world. Do you see a trend here? Exception being John W. Thompson at Symantec. Maybe John should be running IBM right now! 9. Across IBM there is NO respect for the average employee and very little recognition. 10. Nepotism is rampant. Many executives get their families jobs and their buddies make sure that they get "choice" positions and promotions. Over-promotion and hiring of legacy employees is killing IBM. We are NOT a family owned business nor should we be.

2.0
Jun 17, 2008
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Pros

The flexibility of the company along with the ability to earn bonuses via patents.

Cons

Cash compensation (I work for less then when I started counting inflation), reduced headcount, no job security

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