IBM Software Developer reviews

Reality never lives up to promises. Continual trimming of resource to make projects more efficient means frequent unpaid overtime required and eliminates the possibility of doing more interesting work in favour of maintainance cycles and at best, minor incremental improvements. Worst of all, even where there is scope for improving efficiency to help mitigate these problems in later cycles there's no time available to implement it.

There is a lot of talk about work life balance but that's not really the culture. While there is often some recognition for hard work/insane hours it rarely pays off financially. Also raises and bonuses have dried up despite the company's good performance. In most departments, many positions get back filled to places like China and India. This makes people nervous. Most of the products are not exactly that interesting to work on... but there are some cool things happening.