IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

Very difficult to change technologies, different projects work in isolation, lots of leaders without much direction to the teams, too much of emphasis on watson with few less results.

- Poor technical leadership, too many promotions to higher level technical positions that are based on politics, friendships, side-deals, and based on upper management perceived "success". Many high level technical folks manage up and are disconnected with the folks under them providing no real technical leadership for the ones doing the real work. - Too much focus on dates, time-to-market. This trumps quality of the products, solutions, and services. BAD. The company is very large, so this tends to be driven by the culture established by the executives responsible for the various areas. - Many in management think a head count is a head count, they don't understand skill levels.