IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,269 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,269 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
3.0
May 22, 2016

Job security not an option...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There a lot of talented people who are dedicated to their jobs and genuinely care about providing quality service. I've learned a lot from these people who are always willing to share their knowledge and experience.

Cons

Teams are overworked, creating little to no work-life balance. Constant restructuring of the organization leaves its employees unsettled about their future, no matter how well they did on their annual reviews.

1.0
Dec 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are paying Crazy money for people to come back.or start Band 9 160K+ They may put Manager or Senior something or other in your "title"

Cons

They have gotten rid of and still are getting rid of employees with complete disregard of skill, education, or contribution to the business. Promotions are not based on tangible metric, or contribution to the business Bonus's are not based on tangible metric, or contribution to the business There are hardly any Bonuses in comparison to other companies Someone in your org has to be a 3 (low rating) even if you have only 1 person (and they are a wizard) under you, There are so many once "managers" now in place of technical staff and workers all they have are "IDEAS" and there is nobody left to do the work. Hiring, It is so hard to find the individuals that are needed to do the work because candidates have either worked there before and wont come back, or have heard the horror stories and wont come in. What you are hired to do likely wont be what you are doing when you get there. IBM is still trying to "DECIMATE" its own ranks to boost falling stock prices if you go into IBM now you may be caught up in the reorg Management has no idea what is going on and there has been no business planning done. If you invent something that has nothing to do with IBM in your off time say highway road divots It becomes IBM property because you work for IBM the other 8 hours 5 Days a week and you will git nothing other than a 50$ best buy card.

1.0
Nov 24, 2015

Avoid at all cost

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Training (World class with a lot of variety) Name recognition

Cons

- useless work, overpaid admin - worst management style (micromanagement, bully when they don't get what they want) - no benefit at all- compared to other tech companies they are clueless - no free coffee and expensive lunch - long commute if you're living in city center + you need to pay 3.5€/journey to sit on a crappy bus - very rigid salaries and don't pay well compare to competition - very stupid and long processes - company culture is that's IBM we have always done this so accept it or leave- not open to change - too many internal meetings to try to justify their jobs - Stupid focus on digital selling while they don't know what to do with it. Give the tools and proper training and let people decide what's best for them stop trying to force it on people (i.e webinar are useless for some BU such as hardware) - Only company in Dublin to my knowledge where business dev reps are not working together with sales rep on the same territory. Therefore no synergy in creating new opportunities

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