IBM Employee Reviews
Out of 14889 IBM employee reviews, 89% were positive. The remaining 11% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping IBM improve their work culture. The Finance team, with 92% positive reviews, reports the best experience at IBM compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
overall it has been a good experience so far but the onboarding process was a bit lacking.
Review from Operations Dept
Review from Customer Success Dept
good culture good communication helpful team cross team collaboration
Review from Engineering Dept
What do you like best about the leadership team?
They are knowledgable about the industry.
Review from Sales Dept
I appreciate the transparency provided by the leadership team. I feel as though I'm kept "in the loop" as things are changing. I also appreciate the opportunities that I've had to attend off-site events where I was able to meet members of my team as well as others outside of my team, in person.
Review from Engineering Dept
Leadership team always try to involve you into the initiatives they are taking.
Review from Engineering Dept
Our leaders communicate with a good combination of empathy, passion, and pragmatism.
Review from Engineering Dept
the leadership team is focused, knowledgable and approachable
Review from Operations Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Transparency and Empathy. Feels very robotic and seems to only care about the executive leadership team. not the individual contributors.
Review from HR Dept
Leadership needs to align internally on vision. Right now there are often divergent opinions in the leadership group making it impossible for teams to deliver.
Review from Engineering Dept
Enforcing boundaries with customers who abuse service providers.
Review from Customer Support Dept
support women and others, but especially women, and understand the issues
Review from IT Dept
They should try to get to know the strengths of the employees, engage more and retain them so that they don't loose the valuable talent.
Review from IT Dept
What is the best part about your compensation package?
The pay and benefits together.
Review from Sales Dept
RSUs are good along with the base
Review from Engineering Dept
Good 401k plan and competitive overall pay
Review from Engineering Dept
best part is the RSU offered
Review from Operations Dept
Salary is competitive for the market.
Review from Customer Success Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Comparing to the market I would say
Review from Engineering Dept
clumsy programme incorrect set up
Review from Marketing Dept
Compensation rates change and account lists change too frequently to get momentum built for the size deals we are expected to close
Review from Sales Dept
Absolutely - Got promoted twice with zero compensation. Also some of my co workers earn way more than me with less results
Review from Sales Dept
I took a pay cut last year and no one ever discussed it with me. I've had benefits taken away and was expected to smile and move on with my life.
Review from Customer Support Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
We are very disjointed and there is no team feeling.
Review from Sales Dept
My teammates are kind and eager to collaborate. I feel supported and as though my opinions/input matters, even though I am relatively new. This is one of the best teams I've been a part of in my career.
Review from Engineering Dept
Interactive, trying to solve challenges.
Review from Engineering Dept
usually very helpful and wanting to succeed as a team
Review from Operations Dept
Open conversations with lots of opportunity to learn and chitchat.
Review from Customer Success Dept
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
organize, start a union for support staff
Review from Customer Support Dept
They are fine, I'm just a lot older than most
Review from Sales Dept
Everybody is so pulled apart and estranged. A team doesn't feel like a team because the manager has not engaged them well enough.
Review from IT Dept
More technical skill. Compared to the industry (large companies, with comparable size) the technical level of our engineers is much lower.
Review from Design Dept
strive for situational awareness and accountability
Review from Customer Success Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Really smart and kind people that you learn a lot from.
Review from Design Dept
It is supposed to support women, but I see little of that in the DACH region.
Review from Sales Dept
There are too many new learnings which are good for my career.
Review from Engineering Dept
Everyone cares about the way they communicate and engage with each-other.
Review from Engineering Dept
you really feel like a team working towards the same goals
Review from Operations Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Less silos, more collaborations and ways to connect.
Review from Marketing Dept
Not sure if it's across IBM or only in my project but the environment is very toxic. One bad fish can spoil the whole pond.
Review from IT Dept
More accountability on the work people do.
Review from Design Dept
follow the principles for all interactions within the organization
Review from Customer Success Dept
there are 2 companies here... one that makes its employees grow, the other that complicates the working life of the employees: there's the management that even if you point out the problems and even give them the solution, they completely ignore the question and the problems becomes more complicated
Review from Admin Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
Fast and convenient to employee
Review from IT Dept
meeting fellow IBMers, meeting leadership, having q&a
Review from IT Dept
Casual feel and easygoing atmosphere which eased off the interview anxiety & I could perform better.
Review from Customer Success Dept
It was based on principles.
Review from Engineering Dept
Pace of journey from initial interview till the offer.
Review from IT Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Be more responsive in providing feedback and be upfront about delays in the hiring process.
The turn around time of recruitment team. They're too slow. You would have already gotten another job by the time you get progess on your application.
Review from HR Dept
Cut to the chase... no brain teasing questions
Review from Product Dept
What makes you most happy at work?
Working with customers and partners.
Review from Sales Dept
Collaborating with my team and solving difficult problems.
Review from Engineering Dept
Meeting people and solving problems
Review from Engineering Dept
being a part of a team and being able to make an impact
Review from Operations Dept
Everyday is learning something new.
Review from Customer Success Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
More opportunities to meet in person, connect with other parts of the business, and learning opportunities.
Review from Marketing Dept
There's just too much going on all the time. I'm overloaded and pretty sure everyone else is too. Too many objectives all over the place with no concerns for whether they're accomplished or not.
Review from Engineering Dept
Management isn't paying attention to what customers need, or isn't doing anything to meet those needs.
Review from Customer Support Dept
in-person events are not accessible to immunocompromised (or anyone paying attention to the ongoing pandemic)
Review from Marketing Dept
Fix compensation and leveling - HashiCorp significantly under-levels/under-titles engineers across the entire R&D organization relative to the rest of the industry, and equity compensation is quite poor for a public company.
Review from Engineering Dept
What do you like best about your company?
Don't have to travel a lot like i have in the past
career and growth opportunities for employees
Review from HR Dept
The tech based component of it
Review from Marketing Dept
I like that they have many career advancement opportunities
Work life balance is great
Review from Operations Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Clearer goals and career path expectations
less complexity in our processes
Review from HR Dept
The work culture and the way networking is set up
Review from Marketing Dept
Amount of Parental leave provided
Review from Operations Dept
i would like to see all workers valued, both young and old.
Review from Design Dept