IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,070 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 107,070 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
Jun 30, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Ibm has a flexible work environment, which helps a lot with work-life balance. Benefits are good. There are opportunities to change jobs without leaving the company.

Cons

Recently Ibm seems lost in trying to figure out their strategy. VP-level grasp at straws as they try to compete with the likes of amazon and google. They release substandard offerings. They tell offering managers that they are the CEOs of their offering, but then cut off resources with no possibility for these "CEOs" to decide how to spend their budget or resources, and enforce non-logical blanket directives without considering impact. Today most VP-level decisionmakers don't seem to have enough technical knowledge to lead a technology company - they are finance-driven and often make short-sighted decisions based on current quarter numbers, a directive from above, or nice-looking graphics used by a savvy politician to advance his career.

2.0
Sep 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good opportunities to move across the company, network, strong culture of mentoring, good executive packages. Good work-life balance if you give up on a career and just plan to cruise along.

Cons

Close to impossible to rise up executive ranks when not based in the USA. Culture of cronyism and yes-people. Individual "PBC" ratings really destroy team dynamics and actual good leadership, whereas "networking" and "getting visibility" are the way to promotion. Very poor work life balance for higher up execs.

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