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      IBM Software Developer reviews

      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (5,910 total reviews)
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      Arvind Krishna

      70% approve of CEO

      66% positive business outlook

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      Software Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,910 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      6K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 18, 2012

      Long-term Software Group employee.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Flexible working. * Average pay. * Great opportunities for women, minorities, disabled. * Potential to work on significant projects. * Good work life balance. * The people are often great, you can almost rely on anyone in the organisation to be helpful.

      Cons

      * Morale rock-bottom. * Project management often very poor. Project badly run, technically compromised through lack of planning and arbitrary dates. * No training, except from fellow employees. * Sometimes awful work-life balance. Can depend. * Company PBC process for rating employees is demoralising, and gears up employees to play the game and rather than excelling at their day job.

      5.0
      Jul 18, 2012

      Wicked

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good working environment, Respect to Employees, Good opportunities, Diversity.

      Cons

      I think the salary increase should be quicker.

      3.0
      Jul 17, 2012

      Great people, very good benefits, flexible hours, growth opportunity, stress.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people are great - some of the best people in the industry in terms of work ethic, can-do attitude, helpfulness and competency. The work environment is pretty good -- cubes, decent equipment, comfortable, on-site cafeteria with decent food. Vacation: I've worked with IBM for 25 years and get 5 weeks paid vacation, plus sick leave.

      Cons

      The corporate focus is to make money for the shareholders and executives. Employees are simply expendable resources, and are squeezed to do way too much with way too little. If you're not a top performer, your life can be miserable until you quit or are forced out.

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