Is IBM a good company to work for as a Staff Software Developer?

Staff Software Developer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.6 out of 5 stars in 478 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Staff Software Developer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Staff Software Developer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Staff Software Developer employees well?

Staff Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.3 out of 5 stars based on 478 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 8.7% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Staff Software Developer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Staff Software Developer professionals working at IBM?

63% of Staff Software Developer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 20% in the past 12 months. Staff Software Developer professionals have also rated IBM with a 3.9 rating for work-life-balance, 3.7 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.5 rating for culture and values and 3.5 rating for career opportunities.

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What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 10973 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5042 reviews)); "Flexible schedules and work from home opportunities are really good." ((in 4399 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3414 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3307 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5418 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2178 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2012 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1760 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 611 reviews))

IBM Staff Software Developer reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(478 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

51% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

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Staff Software Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 478 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Staff Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Staff Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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478 reviews

2.0

Jun 13, 2008

Great benefits, if you don't mind signing over your intellectual soul...

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are great, work-life balance can be good if you're an efficient worker with a good manager and you leverage that.

Cons

IP Agreements are extremely restrictive given the size of the company. Since IBM is into so many different areas of development, much of what you may be interested in working on externally they could reasonably claim ownership of. Your group may not work on anything remotely close to what you want to work on in your personal time, but IBM can still claim ownership of it because it falls under the wide open umbrella of the entire company's "actual or anticipated" business interests.

3.0

Jun 13, 2008

Work-life balance can't be beat, but don't expect to be working on "cool" projects.

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Stability, work-life balance, prestige, breadth of opportunities. IBM is a well-respected company and offers excellent understanding and support of a healthy work-life balance. Working from home is rarely a problem and is popular among myself and my coworkers. As long as the work gets done, management seems to care little whether you are in the office or working from home.

Cons

Easy to get pigeon-holed and thus dissatisfied with job and unable to move on to something else. Incompetence and seeming obliviousness of upper management. "Cutting edge" Web-2.0ish projects are few and far between and are generally lacking in features and sophistication.

3.0

Jun 13, 2008

IBM -- flexible and profitable in spite of its own hefty overhead.

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunities for education and personal growth within IBM are amongst the best in the business. Even when education budgets are slashed, the resources that IBM provides to its employees are amongst the broadest and most comprehensive. IBM is also very respectful of the balance of Work/Life, and takes great pride in providing flexible scheduling and location based working opportunities.

Cons

The best and brightest at IBM are often restrained from doing their best work because of the numerous interruptions and distractions that are constantly present. When a resource at IBM is discovered to be competent, their performance is hampered by their less competent peers. It's the law of averages working against a company that has the potential to be more innovative and more creative than most of the competition, but the large population that IBM takes pride in maintaining weighs it down.

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