IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,230 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 107,230 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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4.0
Mar 27, 2014
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Pros

Good benefits, good time off and work life balancing. Decent salaries but they will plateau. Non management personnel have some exceptional people to work with.

Cons

Hit a glass ceiling, difficult management for technical people to work with. Work continually increasing and fewer people to handle it. Constant push to do more than be excellent at the job you are assigned. Enough is never enough. Lack of education and new opportunities.

1.0
Nov 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

IBM Airoli is worst place to work

Cons

No work life balance No transport Poor & highly unprofessional management Metal harassment at work by seniors Bad & very expensive canteen HR has cheated employees by hiding lot of terms & conditions, work location, actual ctc Employees started leaving in just 10-20 days due to pathetic work culture Lot of employees has left in shortest period HR & Managers give false commitment while recruiting. Managers expects to work 14 hours, every weekend, every holiday including Diwali No leaves Forget family if you join IBM Airoli

3.0
Aug 10, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

I was paid fairly, and in the olden days (say before 1997) allowed a lot of leeway toward education and professional enrichment. Salary, bonuses, and even awards were more than fairly given in my case. The experience I had at IBM really launched my professional career, most of my experience before was in unrelated fields.

Cons

Over time, management becomes more "metrics driven" - which is to say, short sighted. Oh how many things we did twice because they weren't realistic about the scope of the work, or how it fit strategically. Perhaps that's because much of the "boots on the ground" management has no idea what their underlings do. Also, those awards and bonuses seem pretty arbitrary when you look at the big picture, seems if your own management isn't strong, your dept will never get their share - no matter how hard they work. In the end, they'll either sell your division, move your job to India or China, or just plain lay you off. Everybody I know still in "the company" is watching their backs, just waiting for the axe to fall.

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