IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,115 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,115 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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4.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and great opportunities. The company is really big so if you dont like a work location or a specific job. You can always search for new jobs around the company and move on. They are very into working remotely and that will work for some people. Also, IBM has really good health benefits, diversity resources and a really good 0% tolerance rule. That could be good depending on the situation

Cons

Working at IBM is really good maybe the only downside is that is a really big company and you can get lost if you are trying to search for something in particular

2.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are great, work-life balance can be good if you're an efficient worker with a good manager and you leverage that.

Cons

IP Agreements are extremely restrictive given the size of the company. Since IBM is into so many different areas of development, much of what you may be interested in working on externally they could reasonably claim ownership of. Your group may not work on anything remotely close to what you want to work on in your personal time, but IBM can still claim ownership of it because it falls under the wide open umbrella of the entire company's "actual or anticipated" business interests.

4.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lot of various kind of opportunities within the company. Can do well if you network well. They reward the best employees quite well. Good benefits.

Cons

How well you play politics is more important for promotion than your performance. Management doesn't seem to care about employees. There is no sense of a strong company culture. I don't think employees have any pride in working for IBM anymore. Even as a full time employee you feel like a contractor. You know management has virtually no interest in trying to save your job

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