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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,222 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,222 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      107K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 23, 2012

      Executive Project

      Project executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Company moves to high technologies

      Cons

      Low salaries for all employees, except shareholder profits

      3.0
      Jul 20, 2012

      My experience as apprentices is great but it really depends on the people you work with.

      Apprentice in marketing software
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's a big recognized company which will offer many opportunities. Not inside the firm because they do not hire, but after for your job search. If you are lucky enough to be in a good department, like marketing department, you will have some benefits such as - the possibility to work at home from time to time, you get a laptop which you can carry everywhere. - having flexible working hours : no one will stare at you or make a not funny joke about the time you arrive / leave at you workplace. As long your job is well done nothing else matter. Like I say before, people you work with are the key. I have an amazing team. They trust me, my work and I have responsabilities, interesting projects, I learn a lot.

      Cons

      Like every big company they have process, too many ... I heard it was one of the worst. It is really boring to follow every steps, to have to fill tools with information, to get approval for every € spend... There is also a lake of creativity, we do every the same kind of event and activity, because of all the process we don"t have enough time to create. And we work a lot with agencies which are here to deliver creativity. The do not hire even if you succeed beoing the best of your open space... No way When you arrive you really have to be proactive, work don't come by itself you must look for it, ask for it. My experience is great as I said but many of my fellows are disapointed, they do nothing or ininteresting tasks as excels files, they are really bored. As an apprentice we are really noy paid well 1100...

      2.0
      Sep 28, 2010

      IBM is a big body shop, not really an ISV. Not a good place for a Software Engineer...

      Advisory software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Some of the projects can be very interesting, as a developper. - Innovation is very much encouraged. - Management is quite flexible about tools and processes used for development.

      Cons

      - Competition among people in the same team, no team spirit possible - Technical expertise is completely ignored. You'd better be a good talker and in front of the customers rather than a good developper actually producing something. - Career is something that's very much talked about, but not much is done. And nothing is done wrt to technical expertise.

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