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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      107K reviews
      1.0
      May 18, 2009

      Not so blue...

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you are starting your career you can use it as a stepping stone. Nothing else.

      Cons

      Low salaries. Tthere is no perspective to grow. The work load is too high. No weekends or holidays, just work (in a short time you'll notice that your social life will be lost). If you are thinking to go there work as a consultant, nevermind! IBM and the Consulting companies are always fighting because of their contracts leaving the consultants in a position where they are unable to argue. Unassisted!

      1.0
      May 4, 2015

      An inside view from an IBM Research Staff Member

      Research staff member
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There is a good policy on home-office work, this means you can work in your house whenever you feel it is necessary, this to avoid distractions of usual office work. There's a strong knowledge on computer science among your co-workers.

      Cons

      IBM is in a very deep crisis worldwide and this fact reflects on IBM Research. I have seen many problems with budgets. This is the place where you don't want to go because they won't invest nothing on employee training, you will get tired of never ending conference-calls and inner "technical" presentations that don't lead to nothing. IBM has very few research projects with the industry so you won't experience real life research. Since IBM tries to do research on any field it has not a clear leadership on areas rather than computer science. If you have another field of expertise you won't grow here. IBM Research has cut annual benefits on salaries due to crisis inside IBM. Even if you are a Director in IBM you won't ever fly on business and you will always stay on budget hotels. You would think that if you come to work in IBM Research you'll have a really nice computer, forget it!!! They will give you a refurbished T-420 lenovo. If you look on to any search browser for: ibm crisis, you will know what I'm talking about.

      3.0
      Oct 16, 2014

      A being lost giant

      Project manager
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      lead on technology, world based, global projects but still good benefits

      Cons

      Salary below market average, losing the pace of being a good company to work due to lack of leadership and strategy.

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