IBM Software Developer reviews

No respect for the worker Before we were bought out, we had free coffee, basic paper supplies (spoons, forks plates), sodas, offices with doors. After, moved into cubicles or doubled up in offices, no raises except for 1 or 2 in the department, no coffee, paper supplies, and most recently no working-from -home.

- IBM is eating itself from the inside out with cost cutting to meet corporate EPS targets - Staff education virtually abandoned bar online courses - Gradual reduction in the UK workforce as jobs are transferred to Eastern Europe, China and India. - Staff celebrations are rare and when they happen you have to pay for the food. No different for the 100 year company anniversary. - Pay rises well behind inflation or non existent. Within 3 years of starting, graduates commonly find themselves on less than new grad starters (where IBM has to pay closer to market rates) - Yearly PBC appraisal system demands a fixed number of underperformers to be identified, who must "improve" on some arbitrary measure or face being removed by a separation package. - Plenty of bad blood remaining after various pension measures in 2009 caused many older staff to leave.