IBM Staff Software Developer reviews

Google might give free meals but IBM makes you pay for hot water to put your teabag in! You can expect arbitrary expense freezes to impact productivity and morale recently they held and awards ceremony where the certificates were presented unframed because the framing budget hadn't been approved. Travel expenses are nit picked by jobs worths in the Phillipines who are prepared to waste hours chasing receipts for tiny amounts. Employeee benefits are being continually eroded. Pay rates are set at below the industry average and the companies being compared against are hardly producing the same complexity of product. 95-97% of average is target.

The company can be somewhat management-heavy at times. Sometimes it appears that there are levels of middle management that exist simply to keep people busy. This seems to be especially the case in some of the older organizations that have been producing the same or similar products for many years. This tends to create a lot of politics, especially when dealing with people in different management chains who seem to be getting a completely different vision for the direction of the project. Good first-line managers shield their employees from this, while bad ones can make it nearly impossible to be productive.