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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,230 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 107,230 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      2.0
      Sep 16, 2008

      Lack of recognition and promotion for the employees that keep the stock price up

      Project manager
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      Pros

      Work at home options and job flexibility

      Cons

      Not all organizations within IBM are required to treat employees the same. There are standard HR policies and guidelines in place, none of which are used by my organization. If you're not working 60 hours a week, you're not working enough. People leaving the company don't get replaced, the work gets dumped onto someone else and the pay doesn't increase. Raises for the workers making it happen are non existent, but good ol' CEO and VP's get multi-million dollar bonuses. Morale is non existent, and if you go to your manager about job dissatisifaction or needing more compensation, you are told you should feel happy and 'priveledged' to be working for IBM. Then, you'll get laid off anyway as all work is shifting to the global workforce.

      3.0
      Sep 15, 2008

      Its not the same IBM anymore.

      Senior it specialist
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      Pros

      In my position as a Senior IT Specialist, I have the ability to work from home full time and create my own flexible work schedule. As long as I get the work done, my immediate management isn't concerned about micro-managing my workload. While IBM has always provided good benefits, they have dimminished over the years. For example, the previously guaranteed pension plan is now merged into the 401K plan.

      Cons

      Stupid upper management decisions. Recently, many IT Specailists were given a 15% pay cut and then required to work overtime to make it up. I initially did not have any issues with this as I already worked more than enough overtime to make up the 15%. But, come time for the annual raises, I was not given one despite being rated a top contributor for the last 5 years (very, very rare!). IBM has taken away the incentive to work hard.

      3.0
      Sep 15, 2008

      Saccharine

      Senior attorney
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Work life balance is second to none. One can juggle a home life, study requirements and the job and still have some down time without feeling as if it is begrudged by the employer. It is practically encouraged. The team spirit is there which is positive for obvious reasons but there is also the "peer pressure" to be available and so on. This is however a soft bit of pressure rather than old style "face time" pressure.

      Cons

      So much time has to be spent trying to figure out who is in charge of what or doing what that there is much less time doing actual work and making decisions.

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