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

Senior Software Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.9 out of 5 stars in 2,156 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Senior Software Engineer employees well?

Senior Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.6 out of 5 stars based on 2,156 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Engineer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Senior Software Engineer professionals working at IBM?

82% of Senior Software Engineer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 3% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Engineer professionals have also rated IBM with a 4.1 rating for work-life-balance, 4.1 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.0 rating for culture and values and 3.8 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at IBM?

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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 11036 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 4993 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4373 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3387 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3339 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 5445 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2166 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2000 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1746 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 624 reviews))

IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,156 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

74% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

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Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,156 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews

2.0

Sep 11, 2017

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Senior software developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Stable company, various business fields to find projects into, flexible working hours and home working if the client company allows for it

Cons

Lack of (promissed) mentorship, demands for certifications but no sponsorship, minimal salary growth, old maintenance-based projects, old technologies, disrespect for employee's career path

3.0

Aug 29, 2017

Promotes software developers over all development

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

(1) Focus on grooming the software developer to next levels makes people stay with the company for long. Writing quality code is important for ongoing projects, also learning new technologies by participating in internal technical events keeps the developers current to the market requirements. Moving along with the transforming industry by suggesting enhancements to the current projects with new technologies is the key to groom a software developer's technical eminence. (2) Opportunity to be part of something big and larger than life i.e IBM makes employees feel contended and have our presence felt in every breakthrough technologies evolving in the market like Blockchain, ML etc., The opportunity to learn these new technologies through internal learning resources are good.

Cons

(1) There isn't a strong governing body that controls/promotes transforming legacy software development projects to an Agile methodology. The progress for transforming teams to Agile Squads is very slow, especially for incumbent teams. (2) Lack of focus on backfills for resources leaving the team puts more pressure on existing developers.

4.0

Aug 29, 2017

Senior Software Engineer

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Work-Life Balance, Range of domain

Cons

Salary, Hike, No transparency in rating procedure

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