IBM Employer Reviews

I have a love/hate relationship with my current career. I love working for IBM as a company, the vision, the senior leadership and the prestige of a 101 year old company. I am a work-aholic and with places like IBM that feeds my type A personality. I work 10, sometimes 14 hour days, every day. I work weekends 4-6 hours each day and it is my fault.

Life – more...  balance is not supported except at the middle management level. I am great at my job, I hold many sales certifications that allows IBM to enjoy additional rebates and incentives from Cisco Systems, but I do this for me and am always looking for something that better uses, my ability to mentor, lead and create.

Winning is fantastic at IBM, deals are big, exposure is big and the feeling is great. But as in all Sales,short lived. The next quarter, expectations are set for repeat, continued business growth. Stress is back on.

Travel is anywhere from 20-70%, I usually range in the 50% range, I enjoy traveling and meeting with clients as part of my current job. I have more to offer, but keep so busy, that it is hard to stand out at a global company with nearly 450K employees – less

- Good starting salary with minimal to no raises
- Very few opportunities for practice area work make consultants very competitive with each other
- Expensive business solutions, but they do not invest in training and developing their resources
- Good benefits
- Nothing is standard - everyone's experience is different

Working at IBM has allowed me to learn much more about the career I chose when I was in college by giving me many opportunities to apply the knowledge I acquired at the U of M. My managers and co-workers are more than happy to help me when I have questions.

Spend 5 years.
Last 4 months being part of a new company called GST.
No one know what was the motive behind it.
Personally to me , moved from Ohio to AZ and reduced the salary by 20%. That was company wide when you move from one project to another.
Though all the remaining time was good, clients recognize you, respect you. Good managers, good training – more...  opportunities, lot of growth potential. But the acts by IBM mgmt for those few months screwed it's image and almost everyone I knew moving from project to another was treated like this.
Heard they corrected that, but sure lost lot of good talent during those 6-8 months. – less

IBM sub-contracts a lot of their work on projects. This allows them to do work cheaply, but it also affects the quality of the workers that they put on projects. Also, there is a lack of communication between IBM project managers, and this creates a lot of extra work and confusion for the local project managers.

Clean room and exposed wafers. certified FSI. worked different taskes.

It a good company to work with good environment.
I have learnt a lot from IBM.

This is a very big company. It will take you years to acclimate to the endless systems, processes, organization charts, policies, politics, cultures, values, etc. causing otherwise high-performing people to constantly be dealing with low-value-add nuances.

-Each day I helped customers with there Apple products (ipods, iphones etc.) , I would guide customers through the process of helping them get there device working properly, set up repairs for them, track their products for them in the mail, sales for Apple products, and also getting them to the correct department when I was a call director
-I learned – more...  so much about computers (I was on a Imac desktop everyday), it made my communication skills stronger with having to deal with frustrated customers
-My management and co-workers were some of the greatest people I've ever worked with. I'm still friends with everyone I worked with.
-The hardest part of the job was dealing with extremely mad customers. Most of the time it was warranty issues, where people would spill drinks on their Apple products and the customer would have to pay for the repairs because Apple doesnt cover water damage or physical damage.
-The most enjoyable part of the job was helping the customers either by resolving their issues or getting their product sent in for a repair or getting them a new product. Most customers would just Thank me over and over again! Putting a huge smile on my face:) – less

very good. Nice to work.Salary structure should be improved.

Learned a lot more things
Management is very sincere
My Co-workers are experianced and co-operative
There is no Hardest Part in our job
We were working hard to achieve our target with quality and quantity and enjoyed our work at the same time.

Typical day spent contacting potential client for sales/service needs,
Top Gun Software & Hardware certifications
Management supportive
Co-workers great
Hardest part of job was pressure to achieve benchmarks
Enjoyable environment

worked at IBM for 4 years. I was laid off because department moved to Canada.

Long hours, poor management skills, horrible compensation, men move up the latter faster than women, ibm always said business comes first then maybe everything else after.

I truly enjoyed working for IBM. The selection of food as well as cafeteria option were great! Also the fact that they had outside activities that the company sponsored to provide team building opportunities

very bad working environment, no job satisfaction.
management is head strong with no consideration for subordinates,

Awesome experience of corporate culture and dynamics, fantastic ride which I give my business accumen full credit.

Transferable skills, my second career I would like to renewable energy technologies.

nice place.. learning experience.. trying to integrate new os and applications were challenging

Great learning exp:
All IBM specified tools and applications

9-6 job
Work pressure less
No check-in ckeck-out
Co-workers were good
Management was not uptodate