IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(5,748 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

70% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,748 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Mar 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

* Large company, lots of room to join different groups * Bound to have very competent, intelligent people working alongside you * No myth about bureaucratic processes dragging down development * Most manager very fliexible about work, life balance * Many career development opportunities, perks that only a large company could offer * Jobs being outsourced

Cons

* Lots of lifers, particularly management who have no clue about life outside of IBM * Lots of layoffs, even while company is doing okay. IBM hides layoffs as resource actions to avoid having to report. 5000 people can apply for 5 open jobs.

4.0
Feb 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible Work Options Decent Benefits Variety of work opportunities

Cons

Somewhat hard to advance Low worker moral -- the theme seems to be "take take take" right now with the bad economy Working above and beyond your job responsibility/hours is expected and not necessarily recognized

4.0
Feb 11, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great culture , everyone is helping you out when you join. the management is pretty neat and takes in account for employees problems/issues

Cons

they have individual rooms to work for and thus there is nor collabortion as such between employees which is needed in todays world

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