IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,128 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,128 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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107K reviews
1.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Unless you like working for a huge company.

Cons

IBM has no clue about developing software... it just assimilates smaller companies, and tries to shoehorn them into IBM's way of doing things, which results in low-quality products. It also treats its engineering staff like interchangable cogs, laying off highly paid, experienced engineers for inexpensive college hires, assuming they can do the same job

4.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The People and Management are great

Cons

The many levels of management. Very difficult to get things done internally

5.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic breadth of opportunity to either expand depth of knowledge through research or scope of experience by working on a variety of projects.

Cons

Understanding that things take longer in a large organization and there are lots of processes that need to evolve quickly becomes a challenge/requires patience and urgency in large quantity and at the same time.

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