IBM Leadership Employee Reviews
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
The transparency with the team.
Review from Customer Success Dept
Transparency knowledge vision communication understanding
Review from Engineering Dept
Transparency in the company wide decisions.
Review from Sales Dept
the coaching done has very good value
Review from Customer Support Dept
Alignment on the ambition and general Clarity of vision on what's needed to achieve.
Review from Engineering Dept
communication, collaboration, clear objective and metrics
Review from Customer Success Dept
Being both mindful of the market and the teams responsible for bringing the product to market make the leadership team strong.
Review from Engineering Dept
Their access and availability to discuss important matters
Review from Sales Dept
Focused on delivering value for our customers and caring for people at the company
Review from Product Dept
All Hands to share about the company direction
Review from Sales Dept
I welcome the transparency and clarity of our mission
Review from Sales Dept
the way they apply the company's culture
Review from Customer Success Dept
they are transparent and easy to talk to
Review from Marketing Dept
Highly knowledgeable and focused. Structured methodical approach to the value of the opportunity on hand.
Review from Engineering Dept
They have been as transparent as possible about the acquisition
Review from Marketing 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
Diversity and Inclusion that isn't just marketing in disguise
Review from Engineering Dept
HashiCorp has gotten worse since IPO now that we are beholden to investors like never before
Review from Customer Support Dept
Compensation. Work/Life balance of managers. Career growth for IC's. Definition of plan for growth of PS.
Review from Customer Success Dept
Literally everything. While Armon and DMJ may have clear goals, those goals are diluted by extremely weak middle management where each manager has their own ambitions and goals that do not align with the greater vision.
Review from Sales Dept
respond instead of react under pressure
Review from Customer Success Dept
Transparent communications. Care for employees. Less hierarchy, more crowdsourcing of ideas, processes, improvement areas. In one word: walk-the-talk.
Review from HR Dept
listen and support the team
Review from Admin Dept
Do not put medical mandates on their employees. Don't force them to work from home, then force them back to the work place. Don't take 3 months to approve a religious exemption when most other companies can do it in hours or at the most days. Care about your female employees and their health care.
Review from Operations Dept
The leadership team needs to not just talk the talk but walk the walk. Leaders like to talk about being diverse and inclusive but it feels like they pick and choose based on public opinion not necessarily what is right.
Review from HR Dept
The leadership team needs to stop patting each other on the back and start patting the employees with better benefits, pay, and training opportunities. IBM pays at the least 30% less than competitors for the same job.
Review from Engineering Dept
Genuinely caring about their employees. When Covid hit, Salesforce gave its employees mental health days every other Friday. They have no meeting Thursdays (protected at the highest level). They stood against Roe v. Wade, so employees knew they were protected rather than further traumatized.
Review from Product Dept
My third line manager is a bully. That is not acceptable.
Review from HR Dept
Don't leave out women's rights if you're loudly supporting everyone else's rights. Maybe just fire people (and pay severance) than redeploying people into jobs they don't want
Review from Engineering Dept
IBM's lack of a substantive response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the dissolution of reproductive rights across the U.S. has been very, very disheartening. As employees we have repeatedly raised our concerns to the executives and have been all but brushed off.
Review from Engineering Dept
IBM does not support women's initiatives. IBM explicity excluded from announcing any statement other than a 1-paragraph, "everyone has their own opinion" after the SCOTUS Dobbs decision was announced. Women were silenced in slack channels for sharing ways to help with Dobbs-related rights.
Review from IT Dept