IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,239 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 107,239 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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3.0
Aug 4, 2008
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Pros

Great place for young professionals to start their career. Mobile career path, provides opportunities to work in different industries, compared of bein 'stuck' in a single industry and comapny for an extended time.

Cons

Culture of senior staff members (Associate Partners, Partners) create a two class system of employees

3.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Real innovation, global company that takes new opportunities very seriously. The research work going on at IBM is perhaps the most cutting-edge in IT and even in other industries. IBM has a tremendous cash-cow in zSeries machines and can continue to capitalize on it for years to come. This will finance other projects .

Cons

If you have not gone above grade 10, your salary will not match your abilities or qualifications. Moreover, cost cutting has become a culture so pervasive that even after a great quarterly result, senior managers are asked to freeze hiring, travel budgets and call off international meetings. Hardly anyone can travel in business any longer, even senior execs. I've seen Sr VPs sitting in open space offices -- these are people with 100s of reports. Something is severely screwed up when seniority no longer has any rewards.

3.0
Aug 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good infrastructure, global corporation, very flexible company (hours).

Cons

Politics, politics, politics. Most of the jobs are doing some kind of software maintenance. Few new/good projects to work on.

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