IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,213 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 107,213 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
Jan 27, 2023

Trash Company with too many managers

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Pros

IBM gives you more and more work, but due to inflation and no pay raises for years upon year, you end up making less and less money. Is this a pro? Of course not, but glassdoor forces you put something down as a Pro.

Cons

Lots of incompetent managers. Management does no real work. They just cook up bad ideas about things they know nothing about. Then makes their team implement their bad ideas. Management is getting rid a lot of US workers and moving these jobs to other countries like India and Mexico to save a buck, while holding on to their own jobs. They threatened their employees to get a vaccine or stop working. They made a vaccine policy based on Joe Biden's unconstitutional mandate. They likely did this due to further reduce employees numbers in the US. IBM lost employees without finding replacements for them. The work gets passed to current employees, and IBM refused to compensate employees for taking on additional work duties. IBM made employees take Diversity & Inclusion training similar to Coca-Cola's training that educated employees "To Be Less White" I seen IBM's first hand practices of hiring large amounts of young employees. They called it Vitality Hiring. After the new younger employees got their training from older, more seasoned workers, IBM would have massive amounts of layoffs. Of course, the older higher paid employees get laid off, while the new young employees were safe from the layoff. IBM is a disgraceful company, don't be fooled by their fake reputation of being a honorable company. They are far from it.

1.0
Mar 21, 2021

IBM CICs are the worst

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Pros

-Remote work during covid pandemic

Cons

-low pay -high turnover rate -trained data analyst, but title remains data engineer -can't take concerns to management, they will assume quitting is your only option -12 hr days depending on your project -frequent project hopping -projects not always geared towards your skills or career -in office management staff separate themselves from employees -micro management from certain managers -raises are low and keep you under average pay until you've reached 4 years -CICs are located in economically distressed areas for tax breaks. This means although you have a greater number of minorities working, a large chunk of minorities within the greater company are making less than the US average for their job role.

1.0
Sep 10, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Educational Resources (maybe) I am finally out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cons

- Below the minimum industry compensation - Weak benefits - Long hours - 100% travel (Contract specifies only 50%) - Terrible management (care only about numbers and will tell you whatever you want to hear) Never share anything and never trust them. I've seen people get burned because they were naive and trustworthy - Baton Rouge, LA (No offence to this city, but NO thank you, never again. This city is the kingdom of boredom and depression) I bet if the center was located in New Orleans it would have been less depressing. - Almost no chance to transfer (Beware, the unspoken policy to transfer is that you have to spend at least 2 years in CIC. Never specified in your contract. So was caught totally by surprise) - No career path. You will be hired as a developer and will perform analyst work instead or/and vice versa. The list of Cons can go on even further, but I just wanted to highlight the major issues with this specific location.

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