IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,070 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,070 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
Jan 25, 2018

Graduate

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Courses, training, travelling, environment and salary

Cons

Long projects, males dominant schema,

4.0
Jul 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

· Getting to know people in a wide range of departments. · Making contacts with a big number of clients, as IBM is more of a consulting company nowadays. · Developing cutting-edge technology (obviously depending on the department you work at). These days the focus is on AI. IBM Watson is the product line related to AI. · IBM is a huge international company. Your chances of transferring from one department to another, or even moving to another country are high, as long as you're willing.

Cons

· Working in a huge company also has its cons. Mainly, you may feel like a number. Just one more employee. Sometimes your work, even if great, might not get any visibility at all. At most it will get noticed by your immediate manager, but that's it. · Sometimes it feels like you're missing the big picture of what really is going on in IBM. · In the specific case of IBM Spain, the chances of getting actually hired by IBM are slim because of a legal problem related to a change in retirement plans around 20 years ago. The most likely scenario is working in an IBM project, but getting paid by a collaborating company. So it is really hard to become a 100% IBMer in Spain.

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