How's the work life balance at IBM?
28 Answers from Employees at IBM
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Better. Many in management are parents with children and understand work shouldn't be your number 1 priority. However sometimes for short periods it may trump everything, it shouldn't the majority of the time. I've never had a manager have a problem with the time I need for myself and/or my family.
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Decent outside of sales or technical service delivery. Just don't take parental leave, or they'll ding you on productivity and it could land you getting laid off when they have their regular mass layoffs.
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Pretty great compared to the Industry. Starts at 9am and most gone by 5pm. A sacred lunch hour that is hardly ever filled by meetings. Plenty of flexibility to take time off.
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Depends on the organization apparently, in mine it's pretty solid and I've gotten comp time when having to work more than 50 hours in a week during crunch times.
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Out of balance. There is flexibility to handle non-work related activities but the demands of the job often require MUCH more than a typical 40 hour week.
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Non-existent. The attitude in US ID you should just be happy to have a job even if it’s 10-12 hrs a day, 7 days a week.
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They promote work life balance. But work can be demanding with people work on weekends and late at night (at their own will I might add.)
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Out of every major enterprise company I have worked for, IBM has the best work/life balance. Lunch hour is sacred and not meetings past 5pm.
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Pretty great even in a relatively senior position. Flexible working locations too. You can pretty much structure the way your week looks.
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Depends on your role, but for the most part it's good but high demands on results as any company might expect
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There is none. There were times were I was working over 100 hours a week.
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You have to control it, because they will work you to the bone if they can.
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Highly variable. Sometimes wonderful. Other practices are the exact opposite of balance.
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Decent... it's up to you how you structure your day
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Depends on practice / business unit but flexible work locations.
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It was great when they allowed working from home.
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Very good work life balance, and very flexible.
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you get to do kinda w/e you want.
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Way to much OT (unpaid) expected
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good if you control it
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It’s up to you.
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Not well balanced
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Varies by role/team.
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Good balance
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Amazing
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