IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(5,893 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 5,893 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
4.0
Jun 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good overall compensation, good working environment. friendly co-workers, and lots of resources for self learning large corp so it is not going to bankrupt too easily.

Cons

too big of a company, so the growth is kind of limited they are tyring really hard to bring jobs to india/china so the thave a lot of RA, and it was scary.

2.0
Jun 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work in multi-cultural env. to broad the sights The governance (Matrix) Work with talents

Cons

Work/Life distortion (12+ hours per day) Budget shrinks year over year, being stingy to all employees, but asking technical people to create more and more innovative deliverables Then it means it is generous to shareholders (but not to employees, only 5% discounts of subscribing stock option) Punish young and new hires (taking longer and longer for promotion, less and less raise while being promoted.) The ROI is low when working on a hot product/project (no more bonus, no clever rating rules) Boring office layout (while the office layout is somewhere the creative works root)

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