IBM Reviews in Rochester, MN Area

I have been working at IBM as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Good pay for a Co-Op
Offered a position back for when I graduate.
Very flexible working hours.
Also allowed to work from home.
Very diverse work force.

Cons – Not fully aware what is allowed for vacation days.
Hard to get to know your co workers.
Very large building.
If you need help you might not know who to ask.

Advice to Senior Management – Hopefully move the location of the facility up to the twin cities area in the future.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – I have nothing good to say at this point

Cons – 20% underpaid versus the market, pay freezes, bonuses are almost unheard of, all decisions are made based on the 2015 roadmap which means they are focused on reducing costs at all costs with no thought to the long-term ramifications

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up, morale in both hardware and software is absolutely non existant. You've taken pretty much everything possible away (secretaries, supply cabinets, Thanks awards, snow removal from the parking lots, pensions, bonuses). Everyone I talk to on a regular basis is actively looking for other employment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for less than a year

Pros – -Big Company (Could be good or bad)
-Nice people

Cons – -Terrible training
-Nothing to do most of the time with exception of month-ends.
-Have to work some weekends even when you have about 1 hour of work to do
-Brutal pay, but HEY you aren't doing **** anyways

Advice to Senior Management – -Learn how to train people
-Increase pay, but provide more work to individuals, many people could take the work of 2 or 3 others and have no problem (save IBM lots of money). I would gladly have twice the work for only 50% more pay.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – IBM employees still have good reputation, even though management does not.

Cons – Executives have totally rejected the values and principles of the Watsons. People are not valued, and short term profit is pursued by cutting quality, service, and skilled employees. Effectively no raises for most US employees for the last decade except for executives. Bloated bureaucracy with 5-6 layers of vice presidents (out of 8-9 layers of management) between the average professoinal and the CEO. Just when it seems morale can't get any lower, executives find a way to knock it down more. Withholding 401k match is the latest scheme.

Advice to Senior Management – Read "A Business and Its Beliefs" by Thomas Watson.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at IBM full-time for more than a year

Pros – The COE is a place where you can start your career, but it also is probably not the best place to make your career flourish.

Cons – There are very few chances for advancement within the COE, and most people who go to work at the COE are gone within 2 weeks.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of projects
Can change within company if you want

Cons – Need to find good projects
Chaotic project management

Advice to Senior Management – Spend money on people who know the customers
Give them authority to design the product
Spend money on test professionals who know the customers
Give them authority to hold development to the design
Don't allow management to mess with product design

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible work schedule
Many job opportunities

Cons – Pay is below average for similar position in this market

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good pay and benefits to start

Cons – Poor moral, poor education, lots of turnover

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the education of new hires. Act like you care about the work that is being done.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at IBM as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Extremely flexible schedules. As long as your work is done, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Ping-pong tables consumed a lot of my downtime.

Everyone gets an office, that's pretty cool too. It stays a lot quieter to do work.

Cons – There isn't a healthy medium of workload. You're either sitting around doing nothing for weeks at a time, or you're so overloaded with work that you have to come in early, stay late, then bring your laptop home at night to get more work done. Due to different timezones, phone meetings aren't always scheduled at convenient times (think lunch time).

Advice to Senior Management – Work out a better training program. Managers/supervisors should be able to answer my technical questions, not send me on a chase to find the answers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at IBM

Pros – Lots of opportunity to learn and build your skils.

Cons – Long hours. Company only cares about showing a profit, no longer has any real concern for it's employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit worrying about making large dividends. Start caring about your employees again so they car about the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend