Is IBM a good company to work for as a Advisory Software Engineer?

Advisory Software Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.8 out of 5 stars in 555 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Advisory Software Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Advisory Software Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Advisory Software Engineer employees well?

Advisory Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.6 out of 5 stars based on 555 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Advisory Software Engineer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Advisory Software Engineer professionals working at IBM?

78% of Advisory Software Engineer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 5% in the past 12 months. Advisory Software Engineer professionals have also rated IBM with a 4.2 rating for work-life-balance, 4.3 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.9 rating for culture and values and 3.4 rating for career opportunities.

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What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 11026 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5024 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4377 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3396 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3283 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5454 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2182 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2009 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1724 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 619 reviews))

IBM Advisory Software Engineer reviews

3.8

78% would recommend to a friend

(555 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

39% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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Software Engineer, Advisory employees have rated IBM with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 555 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer, Advisory professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer, Advisory professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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555 reviews

3.0

Apr 30, 2011

Good life-work balance. Freedom to do technical work.

Advisory software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

No micromanagement. can work from home. pretty decent with time off. no career growth. mostly waiting to be laid off while IBM does outsourcing.

Cons

management does not help with career growth. bean counters really.

1.0

Apr 14, 2011

Not good - stock prices and corporate earnings more important than employees

Advisory software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Large and diversified corporation - plenty of opportunities to perform various types of tasks - almost an IT ecosystem in itself

Cons

Very poor management quality, bureaucratic, managers and sales people more important than technical talent - R&D budgets being cut constantly - focus only on low-margin services.

3.0

Mar 20, 2011

OK

Advisory software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great Research Lab in the company

Cons

Management does not recognize team's contribution and focusing on offshore to cut cost

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