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 2,154 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 2,154 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Engineer salaries and benefits 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 2% 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 11028 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5032 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4309 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3444 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3295 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 5459 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2155 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2028 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1770 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 618 reviews))

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3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,154 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

74% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.0

Culture & values

3.8

Career opportunities

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Senior management

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,154 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

3.0

Jan 27, 2016

Senior Software Engineer

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Global company, work with talents all over the world

Cons

bureaucracy, turf fighting among managers/executives slowed down productivity

4.0

Jan 14, 2016

Software Engineer

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility, Technology, Prestige, scope of work, global, values

Cons

Uncertainty, appears sometimes loosing direction, reorganizations

3.0

Jan 5, 2016

Not what you'd expect on a such company

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Nice people (except some managers), office location and equipment, almost free parking (yet), moderate amount of work/tasks, good work/life balance. Freedom to organize your work, home working up to 3 days a week. Still good entry in resume. Unlimited access to documentation, books. Good place to learn IBM technologies although certifications are not free for employees.

Cons

Salaries below market average. Less and less bonuses/profits every year. Never ending "crisis" which they use to explain why there are no raises. Annual evaluations are just a comedy. Only a few projects, mostly concentrated around support (L2/L3), low diversity of projects. Constant pressure on patents and publications. Not too many opportunities to grow knowledge/experience in the software industry as the lab suffers from "reinvent the wheel" syndrome which means "use only IBM tools and libraries or code everything from the scratch" (means no libs like Hibernate etc. allowed in the projects). Many valuable peoples' effort goes unnoticed and/or underestimated, while a few ones are making quick and brilliant careers without no visible reason. I'd also say that not all of the managers are the right people in the right place.

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