IBM Applications Developer reviews

The pay at the delivery centers is a good 30% below that of the industry average. Pay at the delivery centers also seems to be substantially lower than at normal IBM. Most jobs are working on client teams and can end unexpectedly and it is up to you to get yourself on a new team or else you employment will end. They also tend to hire people with low skill sets and try to sell them as senior programmers to clients. Training is spotty at best, so expect to spend your own time training yourself. And employees are expected to work a minimum of 44 hours a week. If you don't achieve this, you can expect to not be promoted. Getting promoted out of the center is next to impossible. Most leave for other jobs.

Manager is the god, people does not get judged on skills rather it depends on how close you are with your manager. Irrelevant concepts of People Manager and Project Manager, which becomes same after a period of time i.e your PM also becomes your PeM. Managers mostly are non technical they are only functional they don't get an idea how irrelevant leads are leading the team with no knowledge but Managers can't judge them because they are non technical. A single resource has lots of manger above him(stupidity).