IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,327 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 107,327 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jan 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

IBM is a good place to pick up SOME professional & technical training and learn how large corporations work. It is also helpful in work life balance by allowing employees to work from home.

Cons

IBM will work you to death. They will pigeonhole you in the same job, limit your ability to learn and grow so that you can have a lifelong career. They will treat you like a piece of meat, and dump you in a heartbeat. You can do a great job, and get great results, and you can work 80 hours a week. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that they reach their profit targets, so the upper executives can get their big fat bonuses. You will be subjected to unending stress and never know from one minute to the next if you still have a job. You will usually not get an honest review of your work as management will rank you against other employees. Even if management has a very talented and high performing team, some people will be ranked lower and get lowball performance assessments. There is no fairness or honesty in the performance assessment system.

3.0
Jan 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IBM look great on a resume when applying somewhere else

Cons

Middle mangement's egos get in the way of them letting the people they manage do training or take the credit for having extra respoanbilty(They are quiet happy to give the responabily and take the credit themselves and pass on the blame to you) incase in the future you are both going for the same postion

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