IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,068 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 107,068 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
2.0
Sep 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

You work with very bright people and you learn a lot. If you just graduated from college IBM is fantastic since they're used to the learning curve, also there are many areas where you can become and expert.

Cons

A couple years ago IBM had very competitive salaries but now that Oracle and other companies arrived you can see that the salaries are not good at all. IBM has a 'brilliant' policy to give better salaries to new employees than keeping their current excellent employees with a good salary. Home office is forbidden for employees but you can see management has no issue skipping several days to work some place else, many managers are too busy on their careers that they don't have time for their employees. IBM Mexico has a full control on your salary and your manager has the full decision, in other words only the ones that keep sweet talking the manager will get a 'decent' salary. Promotions aren't always a great idea, I know a couple people who got promoted and their salaries increase was 0, literally 0. When I joined IBM I was proud, happy and I was able to see myself prosper for the following 25 years making the world a better place, nowadays I'm preparing to open my own company or join a more challenging and understanding company. IBM needs to focus more on their employees and cut the bureaucracy and old politics that make them a hard place to work.

2.0
Oct 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Its a good place to start because they're always in the market for dirt cheap labor. If you're fresh out of school, they will charge their clients for an experienced developer as long as you have a pulse.

Cons

Management hates employees, that's the only explanation for many of their compensation and promotion policies, openly forcing employees to engage in "competitive differentiation" which simply makes for the cutest hostile work environment, everyone trying to make their peers look bad and screwing everyone to cover their behinds. Instead of fixing problems finding new amazing stuff to blame on each other. But in the end is the person who the manager likes the most (or hates less) who gets promoted.

2.0
Jun 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Direct access to the state-of-the-art technologies, even you have the opportunity to contribute. Salary and benefits are good. You can have Home office.

Cons

Discrimination among contractors and IBMers. USA employees don't like contractors from other countries and tend to do discrimination. IBM still uses contractor approach to hire new employees. IBM managers don't have respect for employees time and the can request to attend to office even on holidays.

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