IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,046 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 107,046 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Apr 4, 2014

I can´t wait to leave this company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Looks good on your resume, thats it.

Cons

I´m really disappointed at IBM after 4 years, specially after an awful 2014 in numbers, repercussions have been across the company specially laying off people, not paying bonusses, and overall bad working conditions, with no work security. After 4 years, with less than average managers, and hard people to work, with no sense of professionalism or accountability for their work, or teamwork, you end up fulfilling lots of roles and duties of others, in order to keep the clients and manager happy. There is an absurd abundance of managers, they sprout like yeast, i have 4 managers to respond, witch not only have different interests , but no one really contribute to the business just to keep the bureaucratic inefficient machine, that IBM has become, working. When a client tell us a need it take IBM 3 weeks to have a solution 2 month to have a price and 5 month to deliver, no wonder why they buy elsewhere. There is No real career development in the company once you are in its nearly impossible to move up, all the managing positions are filled with friends, not by skills or accomplishments , lack of education and new opportunities, of curse you have the e-learnign but no real time to take them, and there is no value in a internal IBM course, rather than a certification provided by a third party. I`ve tried really hard to succeed in here, working 90+ hours a week for some time (with no overtime), even hit some great trophies in this years and recognition form clients and peers, but at the end all i have the same paycheck as 4 years ago, even less with inflation, bad working conditions and a really bad taste in my mouth.

2.0
Jan 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It looks good in your CV. Decent work life balance and relaxed environment. Very low expectations overall.

Cons

It is a monster-company and sometimes it looks like it is out of control. Products and services are generally outdated and their features overlap resulting in huge inefficiencies. Nobody can be bothered to care about that -there is pressure to work on your small-picture area- and it would be useless anyway since the scale of the technical field has grown way beyond tractability. Also, hordes of managers not really adding much value.

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