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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,214 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,214 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
      4.0
      Jun 1, 2009

      No

      Senior consultant
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      Pros

      This company provids lots of information and knowledge to support your work. You could learn very much to strong your mind if you are used to use these tools.

      Cons

      In most of time, you will get lots of challenges from your client. How to change yourself to match them or how to persuade them is always a huge tradeoff you need to judge.

      4.0
      May 27, 2009

      A great technology company that needs to work on its sales strategy

      Sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Immense resources with some very talented people. There are tons of very interesting projects going on internally, many of which will eventually make it into products. In some respects, our intranet is a geek's dream playground.

      Cons

      Because it is such a large company, it is not the sort of place where you will move up through the ranks very quickly. Although it is not the IBM of the olden days, there is still very much a management hierarchy, and getting promoted to a people manager role takes time. My biggest complaint would be around the company's sales strategy. There is a laser-like focus on the IBM "message," and as a result individual brands are not permitted to do their own advertising. The end result is a company with a set of great products that not one in the marketplace is aware of. It is very frustrating to see this as a sales rep, where you are selling products you can get excited about, but feel like you are being slowed down by IBM's own sales strategy.

      4.0
      Apr 30, 2009

      Innovative Business Matters

      Senior software engineer manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      IBM supports a very flexible work schedule, focused on getting the job done rather than what hours were worked during the day. Also, many jobs allow for some, all, or as-needed portion of the week to be worked from home at the employee's discretion. Vacation time is self-managed and also very flexible. The work environment (at least in Austin) is extremely casual. There is a mind-numbing array of resources available to employees from freely available records detailing corporate policies, HR records, IT systems, capital requests, tools for managing corporate charge card, tools for booking your own corporate travel, on-line libraries, surplus stores, education, book ordering, volume printing, recreational activities, parks and facilities, etc., etc. IBM also rewards innovation with awards for patent contributions.

      Cons

      Resource reductions without backfilling (at least in North America) leave too few resources overcommitted and burnt-out dreading the yearly review cycle. Intranet search bites (i.e. while there are a mind-numbing array of services available, finding them is never easy).

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