IBM New York Reviews

Pros

learning experience, nice environment, helping people

Cons

no challenges, insipid day to day routine

Pros

big & agile company with a lot of cloud market coverage

Cons

known for reorgs, so you need to be able to adapt to change

Pros

You will have good people to work with and a big brand name for your resume. The work load isn't too heavy.

Cons

Raises and bonuses are non existent and have been for years. If you perform well and you are not in sales or an executive, your bonus may be $800. Also, as of 2019 IBM eliminated out of network health coverage. None of the plans offer it though they still call the plans PPO plans, but read the fine print. You are 100% out of pocket for out of network coverage. But the costs go up every year while the coverage declines....

Advice to Management

Stop rotating senior executives around different roles when they don't perform. Just bring new people in. It's a dance of the lemons each year.

Pros

IBM is a company that values the expertise you can bring in. If you are an experienced professional with a knowledge that IBM considers valuable, there's no better place to go. IBM will compensate your experience like no one else.

Cons

It's hard to grow your income. The company will lay you off without hesitation if your expertise is not needed any more. It has a high personnel rotation. Many thousands leaving, many thousands coming in.

Advice to Management

Avoid too many changes every year. Having a new manager every year leaves a sense that there is no organization.

Pros

used to be flexible about WFH policy good work-life balance

Cons

- recently with the new CMO, managers are being oddly strict about the WFH and vacation policies. This was one of the few perks this old giant used to have. - there are quite a lot of people with dinosaur mentality -- whose first job out of college was at IBM and have been working here for 20+ years ago. Those tend to be the most difficult ones to work with.

Advice to Management

If you don't want to lose young talent to other established tech start-ups, please get with the times.

Pros

For those afforded the opportunity to work from home, there is great work/life balance. The company does have some decent benefits, though healthcare benefits have waned dramatically over the past few years. The biggest benefit of working in a company like IBM, however, is the ability to move into different roles and try new things. The company is vast, and opportunities abound.

Cons

I've worked at IBM for many years. The culture has shifted dramatically, and not all for the good. The executives clearly don't care much about the individual employee and are focused, quarter to quarter, on the stockholders only. They have yet to realize that treating the employees well will result in better results, better profitability. The shift to "co-location" within the past couple of years has done a lot of...

Advice to Management

Pay attention to your people- your individual contributors. The culture is so focused on tactical responses to quarterly results that they lose focus on treating the employee with respect.

Pros

There are few people who are good, rest there is nothing good about this company. One thing I can suggest, if you don't know anything or don't want to do anything, apply at IBM you will be promoted to the Director level

Cons

Management is clueless, not sure if they are competent enough to run the company

Advice to Management

Wake up

Pros

IBM has a good work life culture and health benefits

Cons

You do not get stocks and bonus