IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(2,153 total reviews)
avatar

Arvind Krishna

74% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,153 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).

Reviews by job title

2K reviews
1.0
Sep 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Name recognition on a resume. If you do join, don't stay long; a couple of years max, then move on to some other company with better prospects.

Cons

Incompetent upper management. Executives are more interested in driving the stock price up in the next quarter to line their pockets, than to plan for the company's long-term prospects. Most senior management is completely clueless on the technical front and rely on underpaid and overworked folks in the trenches to do all of the hard work. Powerpoint presentations are ubiquitous and long (100+ slides in a presentation are not unusual), and people spend months and months between pre-pre-reviews and pre-reviews before the final review.

2.0
Sep 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool technology (depends on the team/group/product you work on). I've been fortunate to have worked on a team that provided man PoCs for Fortune500 companies.

Cons

I've also been unfortunate to work for a very lame and useless team as well. You could really feel yourself losing braincells by the minute. Mgmt was waaaaaaay to old! They were very out of sync w/ employees, technology, etc.

Viewing 2140 - 2142 of 2,153 Reviews

Glassdoor has 131,441 IBM reviews submitted anonymously by IBM employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if IBM is right for you.