BMW Group Software Developer reviews

4.4

73% would recommend to a friend

(57 total reviews)
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Oliver Zipse

99% approve of CEO

96% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated BMW Group with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 57 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. BMW Group is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Produktion industry (3.9 stars).

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57 reviews
3.0
Mar 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very interesting project. Overall technically reasonable. Great food.

Cons

High developer churn, people come and go. After a year, you barely recognise the people around you. Competition between employees and contractors leads to lots of mutual backstabbing. Some people have made a cosy place for themselves by fixing and reintroducing the same bugs every couple weeks and they will backstab everyone else. Spreadsheet performance metrics determine your fate. No time to fix difficult long-standing issues that slow down development overall due to weekly schedule. More fixated on blame-shifting than on improving the quality of the product. Lots of years-long unmaintained code because whoever was responsible for it, is gone, and nobody took up responsibility since. Middle management only thinks of career advancement even if they leave the project in a worse state, they just need the metrics and feature lists to show.

5.0
Aug 31, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

BMW is a very nice company to work for. The colleages are very knowledgeable and most of them are ready to lend a hand when needed. The work life balance is usually very good. This is enforced by a very strong union. Note that the work environment is very professional to ensure that project are finished and time and are meeting the highest standard.

Cons

Not so many cons. Overall very good. Big jumps in career evolution might be a bit difficult to reach due to the large number of competent workers to choose from.

3.0
May 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

very flexible good environment high knowledge

Cons

I had no negative comment to say

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