IBM Senior Software Developer reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,154 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

74% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,154 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Oct 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent place to develop skills. Good internal training programs. Reasonable work/life balance. Great place for a first or second job to develop skills and training, before obtaining competitive compensation elsewhere.

Cons

Uncompetitive salary. Poor raises and bonuses even for top performers. Lack of career advancement opportunity, promotions extraordinarily difficult to come by, even for top performers. Middle management has significantly lack of vision. Employees are treated (and referred to as:) interchangeable "resources" rather than individuals. Many employees are average at best..80/20 rule applies

1.0
Sep 29, 2008
Recommend
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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
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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.

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