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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,206 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,206 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
      3.0
      Aug 21, 2008

      Could do better

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility & opportunities for different job, roles and countries. Generally freedom to move around - an individual manager cannot typically stop you. Interesting technical opportunities especially on customer projects.

      Cons

      Very intense working environment, lots of pressure on sales side. Focus on small number of people expected to progress well at expense of everyone else. Very heavy burden of reporting and documentation on managers. Very inflexible world wide policies on recruitment, bonus, pay, expenses etc. Necessary to be 'visible' to progress and make an impact on internal projects (not just customer engagements).

      4.0
      Aug 20, 2008

      Great company with some flaws

      Advisory project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pride of working for Big Blue, recognition everywhere. It opens doors for me if I want to move on to something else. Great worklife balance and understanding managers. I am allowed freely take time off when I need to, no questions asked. I also get to work with some really brillant people (and of course, some pretty dim ones too) in the cutting edge of technology. There are also a lot of opportunities to move across jobs and functions, which is great because you get to try out different jobs without losing seniority. There is also a very good training structure where you can easily take courses you are interested in.

      Cons

      I did not like the huge bureacracy that came with a large company. Lots of red tape and also lots of politics. The waves of layoffs I experienced (even though I was not affected) was demoralising, but I guess it's the general economic situation at that time. And being large and old, there are a lot of deadwoods around, people that dont do much work but draw a high pay. Paywise, it was alright but not great. Bonuses were neglible.

      4.0
      Aug 20, 2008

      Make 95K sitting home, eating chips, and checking your email every 2 hours!

      Systems specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working at home. Make 95K sitting home, eating chips, and checking your email every 2 hours. Another good reason is that IBM looks good on your resume. Finally, you get really good at dealing with politics and difficult angry people (who are this way because they are stressed from being overworked and forced to achieve unrealistic goals.)

      Cons

      Hard to advance career (even when you really try hard) and LOTS of red tape to go through to get anything done. I always tell people working at IBM is 90% filling out forms / 10% doing actual technical work. IBM needs to start caring about employees again and we will care about the company. Until then, we will be unproductive.

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