IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,253 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,253 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
Sep 28, 2009

IBM - Review

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Recommend
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Pros

- Many good people to work with. - They are fairly flexible when you have a personal commitment to take care of. - Access to many employees with a wealth of experience (although that is dwindling...)

Cons

- They take advantage of the employees. - Every year it's work harder (more unpaid OT) for the same or less money. - No matter how good a performer you are, you can/will get replaced with a "global resource" who can't even come close to doing the job at the same level of performance. - For those remaining and having to rely on support from the "global resources", it becomes very difficult to get your own job done. Before you could count on your support groups to do their part, you knew who you could contact and who was responsible. But with the employees constantly changing that is no longer the case. Many things fall through the cracks and management turns a blind eye and just wants to know why the deadline wasn't met.

2.0
Sep 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friday flex days, planned events by the COE, 401K match, having IBM on your resume, working with 350 other 20 year olds

Cons

Being controlled by 3 different contradicting forces, low low pay, not much of a bonus, constantly being inundated with IBM propaganda, knowing that no matter how hard you work, you will get the same ratting. Unless your good at sucking up, you won't find much progression here. Management stresses having experience in all different roles, and then five seconds later will tell you how important it is to stay in the same job role for 2 years, this tends to go along with their standard practice of contradicting themselves and not having the intelligence to realize it.

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