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      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (107,137 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 107,137 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
      2.0
      Nov 26, 2012

      Solution Architect perspective

      Solution architect
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Medical Assistance, Odontological Assistance, Private Pension Plan, Mobility (Home-Office), Solid Enterprise

      Cons

      Salary, Promotions, Recognize,Worklife Balance, PLR

      3.0
      Nov 1, 2012

      A company of companies

      Software engineer (band 6)
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A lot of brands, units, and an infinite amount of projects with great flexibility to move among them. This enables employees to change roles and move into new projects. Sometimes this even happens when the employee has no previous knowledge or experience on the new area. Stable company, very focused on earnings and always with a vision for more growth.

      Cons

      We all work for the company stockholders. This seems much more like a financial company than anything else (service, it, etc): everything is calculated and there is always a cost/risk pair to it. Companies nowadays call their employees "resources", IBM calls them "cost". Too deep hierarchy. It's hard to know what is going on up there. Managers are moved from projects/areas/units/brands every 2 years, so you get a new manager who might or might not know about your project and how your team works... this is usually really bad. As always, there are some exceptions.

      3.0
      Dec 22, 2010

      Ok place to work, but beware of inflexible corporate culture

      It architect
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good opportunities for career growth - Makes it easy for changing job roles and positions - Career path is well-defined - Broad business vision

      Cons

      - Salaries lower than competitors; especially if you are a long time employee - Too much competition within the company; hurts overall business strategy - Many layers of management and overlapping job roles - Inefficiency of resources and slow response to market changes - HW e SW divisions still depend on mainframe sales - Cross reporting makes employees waste time keeping multiple managers up to date.

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