IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,046 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,046 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Oct 31, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The working culture and environment is good here. Freedom to employees and facility of work from home.

Cons

Lagging in behind free services to employees.

1.0
Feb 27, 2013

Worst company for freshers

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

No pros. mmmmm....yes 1 pros is there: when you join the company you will get rs 25k as a bonus.

Cons

If any fresher will stay in this company for more than a year, he will ruin his/her career. No growth. First of all they will throw you at any location in India for training. Then you may get any competency on which you will be trained regardless of your skills. Training is also worst. Then after completion of training you will be assigned to a project in any location within India. You have to accept that offer otherwise you will have to leave the company. All good till this point if you accept the offer. Now when you go to the assigned location you will be on-boarded to the project. And now comes the shock. You come to know that the project which you have been assigned to has nothing to do with the competency in which you have got trained. Most of the projects in IBM GBS are support projects. Those people who love coding cannot survive here. And few projects in which there is some coding part, are assigned to non IT-Computer graduates. Now let's talk something about pay: During campus placement, package of 3.4 LPA is announced. In actual you will get only 22.5 K in hand. Combining all the benefits and variables which are part of salary structure, the total amount comes out to be 3.2 Lacs. Where did this 20 K go??? There is a bond of 1 year. 1 Lac amount. Nature of work: Many projects have shift timings. You have to work in 3 shifts. Morning, evening and night. Although you will get extra allowances per shift. No work life balance. There will be no team outings, lunch, or fun. Much more negative points are there which I' am not remembering.. :P To sum up, this company is for those people who are about to retire, and do not want to work, just sit..

5.0
Jul 5, 2016

IBM OFFER LETTER

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

IBM is big company which always looks for overall well-being of employees and recently placed students ( FRESHERS). FRESHERS who are recently placed must have patience regarding OFFER LETTER .I am same as you who recently got offer letter with immediate response and complete support from IBM university hiring team after completion of my graduation in engineering recently. I want to say that keep hope, definitely upcoming day is in your favour and sure you will get offer letter soon .

Cons

IBM is big company which always looks for overall well-being of employees and recently placed students ( FRESHERS). IBM is great because it supports completely disabled employees with care.

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