IBM Reviews

Former Employee – worked at IBM as an intern for more than a year

Pros – beach volley ball, good work-life balance.

Cons – not many, just that some of my team members didnt know much

Current Employee – been working at IBM as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – Work from home. Flexible hours.

Cons – Not enough feedback. Takes a long time to get credentials to perform work, management is not always familiar with how critical business needs are.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IBM

Pros – Good salary, good bonuses if available, excellent compensation plan, friendly coworkers, easy to move to new position internaly.

Cons – Nearly exclusive focus on shareholder value at the expense of employee morale.

Former Employee – worked at IBM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Management was easy-going not much pressure.

Cons – There was a lot of pressure from customers.

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at IBM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Plenty of learning experiences if you are willing to learn

Cons – low salary and insufficent benefits does not adequately compare to local industry

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IBM full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Huge company, therefore there's opportunity to move around and try different roles

Cons – Too big, lost sight of what IBM is and where they came from. It's no longer a company that values it's people, it simply values the $ and share price.

Advice to Senior Management – I think Thomas Watson would turn in his grave if he could see and hear what IBM had become over the past decade. He was a man of honor, integrity, foresight and innovation. I genuinely cannot remember the last time I felt that any of these attributes were being applied to the job that we do or the way in which we treat people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at IBM

Pros – You can have flexible hours so that you can come in late and leave later or come in early and leave earlier. You can work from home as long as it doesn't impact your schedule.

Cons – When we are nearing the end of a product cycle, you are expected to work lots of hours and there is no OT pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Compensate the employees better with the amount of efforts they put in.

Former Employee – worked at IBM full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very smart and friendly people. You feel like working only with high level specialists or first class experts. Many opportunities to meet and/or talk with people from other lines of business or geographical areas. Many opportunities for professional development.

Cons – Sometimes the process of starting a new initiative can be too slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring upper level of management closer down to people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at IBM full-time for more than a year

Pros – * Decent pay
* Interesting projects -- IBM has their hands in a lot of cool stuff
* Lots of opportunity to move around (and up)
* Work with the best equipment (IBM makes some of the best servers, storage units, etc.)
* Big company, meaning nice perks like travel, up-to-date equipment, etc.

Cons – * Situated in Markham
* I was doing my internship during the recession of 2008. I was quite put off by the fact that I saw many senior-level people shown the door around January of 2008, while, at the same time, IBM was continuing to hire interns for cheap labour. Ultimately, I decided to go to grad school instead of accepting the full-time offer of employment that they made to me. Nevertheless, I had a great time there and learned a lot.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at IBM as an intern for more than a year

Pros – The facility is great, my manager was very understanding and encouraging, and most of the experienced developers and managers are friendly.

Cons – Very bad learning environment due to lack of standardized educational material or procedures. Very help based system of work, you have to constantly ask for help, asking for help itself is a waste of time in my opinion.

Advice to Senior Management – Could use a little more experienced/skilled employees to help the new comers. As well as classes and one on one sessions where new comers will be taught for a few months, before they are left to their own.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend