IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,230 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 107,230 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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107K reviews
1.0
Apr 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

In truth for new joiners it would be for the CV, but there are still quite a few good people here to learn from but reducing fast. Some interesting stuff to do as well if you end upon the right place but difficult to find.

Cons

Abysmal management, finances and direction. Zero direction or idea what they are doing. Good troops still try to help clients but constantly hampered by clueless management (who only care about their pay packet and culling troops) and increasingly poorly skilled recruits often offshore but now recruiting poorly skilled locals as well to cut cost but deliver very badly at the same time. Strategy such as it is is just wrong and badly done anyway. Many lies given to staff daily.

2.0
May 22, 2016

OK

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is alright.

Cons

Managers promise promotions to employees in return for the employees to exceed their quota but promotions are then put on hold because budgets are supposedly not figured out. Extremely high lack of transparency.

1.0
Jan 27, 2016

A tech company with a strong neanderthal culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Their job descriptions are great. If you like to have your job description to say amazing things, this is the place for you (unless you're actually interested in the content of the actual role)

Cons

Dinosaur culture. Almost everyone you will meet working at IBM started their careers at IBM and there is a reason for that. The employees or senior management don't really have exposure to the real world and they just don't know how bad the place is. Things like the lack of coffee or proper drinking water for employees do not bother these people because they haven't seen any better. The place is a dump. Culture is awful and from the actual work you do (which most of the times is completely meaningless, because of the antiquated management and reporting systems in place) to the treatment you get at the cafeteria (where you are a paid customer but the guy at the grill is out smoking while the cafeteria is open and the cash register person is nowhere to be found because you're in the middle of some kind of forest and there is nowhere else to go) everything is awful.. but because nobody at the company has seen any better, nothing ever changes. If you come here with prior work experience, nobody will care about or even understand what you did before. Management isn't interested in the real world outside, and the results they produce show it.

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