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Working at IBM in Lexington, MA: 9 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Lexington, MA Area

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On average, employees in Lexington, MA at IBM give their company a 0.4 rating out of 5.0 based on 9, whereas overall Average Rating of IBM is 4.0 out of 5.0 based on 2520 IBM Review Ratings. The happiest IBM employees in Lexington, MA are Director of Marketing Communications submitting an average rating of 3.3 and Advisory Software Engineers with a rating of 3.7.

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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 1593 IBM Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.9
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.2
Rewards You Receive
3.8
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.1
Work Setting
4.0
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"IBM is a great company, versatile environment, good work life balance, creative work, best team members."
Posted 11 years ago in Saint Louis, MO

Working at IBM in Lexington, MA: 9 Employee Reviews

Director of Marketing Communications

What do you like about working at IBM?

"The large Fortune 100 company had a great deal of respect."

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

"This is a very conservative corporate environment. Respect the organization and fall into line."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Limited growth and advancement opportunities prevented most employees from going beyond specified roles."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create a more collaborative environment. A more level management with less hierarchy."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Developer Co-op

"It is good, but not good enough."

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

"It is a good company."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"It is a good project and team. Overall, it is fun."

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.0
IBM (2520)

4.7 Highest Rated in this Industry is Sigma Designs (5)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Polara Engineering (6)
3.9 Average of All Companies in this Industry (20,231)
Software Sales Specialist

"One of the largest companies in the world, needs to treat their people better and compensate them better."

Application Database Administrator

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Good team of people, brilliant minds, still friends with quite a few people from there."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Work/life balance for employees needed work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work/life balance needed work, more employment stability for US employees."

Technical Support Engineer

"Positive working experience."

Senior Systems Engineer

"Great software, great people, different sort of corporate culture."

Advisory Software Engineer

"Don't try to work there in Massachusetts these days."

Senior Software Engineer

"Rational Software - a great tenure with a great team in a great company - now absorbed by IBM."

Advisory Software Engineer

"A cog in the big blue machine."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Very flexible, matrix organization, great people."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"24-hour workday for global teams."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None - they don't listen."

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