IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(5,901 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

70% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,901 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay is given to us

Cons

bad work life balance in the office

4.0
Aug 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As long as you are part of the right Business unit, you will be seeing a lot of cutting edge Tech to learn from. Work life balance is unmatched if you are within the internal or Product based Business units. Some Client Zero Business Units may same or similar WLB

Cons

Although you will see cutting edge tech.. Most of it is behind red tape. Minimal funding for sandboxing. There are enough year round hackathons to work with new tech but when it comes to project production level implementations, most business units flake out.

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