IBM Employee Reviews about "work environment"
74% would recommend to a friend
(4786 total reviews)
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- "Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" (in 8226 reviews)
- "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." (in 4203 reviews)
- "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" (in 4165 reviews)
- "Good benefits backed by a solid fortune 50 company with world class products and services." (in 2855 reviews)
- "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" (in 2574 reviews)
- "Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" (in 4660 reviews)
- "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" (in 1883 reviews)
- "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results." (in 1544 reviews)
- "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" (in 1502 reviews)
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Updated Nov 30, 2023
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Return to all Reviews- 3.0Jul 27, 2022Applications DeveloperCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearBengaluru
Pros
Fair pay for experienced people
Cons
They make you work for 12 to 14 hrs without letting you claim extra hours and very bad work environment
- 1.0Sep 15, 2018Systems EngineerFormer Contractor, less than 1 yearSydney
Pros
- Colleagues are mostly helpful - Flexible work from home arrangement possible
Cons
- Very negative and toxic work environment due to extremely low staff morale due to the many rounds of redundancies. People that are still there are not there because they want to be, but are just waiting for a payout.
- 4.0Oct 20, 2022Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
I am proud to be say IBMER and work environment is good and can have different domains
Cons
citrix and slack is down
- 5.0Aug 10, 2020Applications DeveloperCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearPune
Pros
Very friendly environment and the work makes me easy to do by the help of colleagues
Cons
To prove myself better and to know my strength
- 5.0Oct 26, 2020Financial AnalystCurrent EmployeeRochester, MN
Pros
IBM offers a very collaborative work environment and I always enjoy working with my coworkers on projects and day-to-day tasks. IBM allows employees to spend time during the work day taking education courses to expand our skill sets
Cons
No applicable cons to be listed.
- 2.0Dec 19, 2016Anonymous EmployeeFormer Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Pleased with middle management: In 2 years, I've had 3 different direct managers who were very attentive and invested in my professional development as a university/new graduate hire. Friendly and helpful work environment: All of my coworkers were extremely knowledgable and helpful, and getting tasks done never felt adversarial. Flexible work environment: many employees work from home and are still able to communicate with each other effectively
Cons
Reward scheme is awful to nonexistent: Before the end of my first year, I transitioned from QA to development at my own request to work on a newer product. Despite helping present for a conference and receiving a PBC 1, I wasn't given any sort of raise, promotion or stock options package. My starting salary was far below market value and did not change at all in two years. I know lateral moves seem to be the only way to get a raise these days (I negotiated a 30% raise plus stock options). It felt like a lost cause once I had to initiate negotiation for a pay raise.
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