IBM Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"A positive experience working with competent individuals."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"The challenge of working diverse organizations with different server and OS needs and varying time frames to accomplish the tasks."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Only to be professional in appearance and attitude. Insure that you know what the group's jobs and expectations are."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Lack of opportunity to cross over to different groups to advance and learn other skills."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make those opportunities available to all employees and contractors. Be more flexible in group assignments."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"The work environment and support from the team members is very good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Learn good technical skills and negotiate on compensation in advance."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"The compensation and benefits are not good as compared with the working."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Company has to provide more compensation and benefits to the resources."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Smart people, exciting technology, a solutions culture, great benefits, it's huge - you can find an expert in anything."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Teamwork and collaboration is a must. You need to be an innovator but not in isolation."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"It's huge - you can get lost in the hugeness. Sometimes its reputation gets in the way of understanding."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make more time for coaching staff and mentoring individuals who seek out that support."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"I'm a trusted adviser and I can express my ideas for better solution development."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure to communicate your goals and how you would achieve them and communicate your accomplishment."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"My company is very large and easy to act on innovation unlike a smaller firm, and as a result some ideas get lost in transition."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should continue to encourage and embrace innovation in order to stay ahead of the curve."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"The job has good hours and some people are fun to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Emphasize your leadership capabilities and desire to drive towards change."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Feeling like a number and receiving few praise for my work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would do my best to make people feel like more than a number."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Somewhat steady job with somewhat good pay, though not in line with the stress."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a backup plan ready for the next five years."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"We are micromanaged to meet metrics which have little bearing on the actual job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bring jobs back to US and restore the focus on people's capabilities."

"It was a great experience and honor to work with IBM."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"The people and the company itself. As the saying goes, IBM is IBM."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be themselves and be open to adopt the processes and system of the company."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"There are times that it takes too long to submit a proposal to the client because of the long winded process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"For them to sit and discuss on how to shorten the process for proposals to meet client's satisfaction."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"I can work from home twice a week. I start my work day from home."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be lazy, almost nobody cares about things in the company. Pass on the problems to somebody else. Being a bootlicker will take you further than hard work."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Bad salary, boring job, half of the problems that get to us to solve have nothing to do with what we do (another team handles it) or it is not well documented, Idiots become managers often."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would allow people to work from home the whole week and pay them a good salary."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Great spot to work, management is great and the training program very solid."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a company that you need to see as a long term career, it takes a while to move up the ladder."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"It is a big company to navigate and difficult to manage stuff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest more in marketing and advertising and also give free lunches."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"First job. Great opportunity. Could not judge first time out. It was the beginning of outsourcing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I can't say. I worked on the Blue Cross account from late 1994 through 1997. A lot has changed."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Contract disagreements with the customer disrupted work, and caused transfer to Lucent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. I'm not qualified. This was an outsourcing endeavor at a higher level. I was just a technician."

"My second IBM assignment with Lucent was as an applications programmer in a Unix."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"IBM is a global company, and their outsourcing division Global Services was new when I started. It later accounted for more than half of company revenue."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None relevant. If you know Java, Ruby, PHP, C#, JQuery, etc. you will be sure to get a job."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"The Global Services division due to outsourcing has no loyalty to its employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. They know what they are doing, and it's a good business model."

"The company lost its commitment to its employees."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"I could work from home and the pay was good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Carefully consider why you want to work for a company this large."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"The company bought new companies every month making it hard to get promotions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Integrate more people development and team building into the job. It felt like working at a body shop."

"It can be quite a challenge."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"it is a challenging type of work and it can be rewarding."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be truthful when you are interviewing. We are finding out that our needs for people are not being correctly chosen with the work they apply for."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"I have to be sitting at a terminal all day."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be a little more patient with your group, but be more involved with the work we do."

"I enjoyed my years at IBM tremendously. My colleagues were fantastic."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"My colleagues were fantastic to work with. Ability to telecommute and flexible working hours allowed tremendous work-life balance."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"No longer term vision, stock price/accountants seem to drive business decisions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Someone needs to drive a genuine discussion on growing revenues instead of trying to shrink expenses. You can't keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results."