IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(5,765 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

71% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,765 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Sep 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great pension Extra holidays can be gathered / bought (or, indeed, sold) Some of the 'You' benefits such as cars compared nicely to civil service The IBM name still has an eyebrow raising cachet

Cons

Salary wasn't great Had to train clueless 'colleagues' who were brought in on a greater salary than I You need to play corporate email games to justify your yearly review score Too many layers of bureaucracy to getting anything actually done Some days wasted just stuck in meetings instead of getting actual work done Corporate indoctrination Lotus Notes is still the corporate email client

3.0
Sep 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great at working on career development, training and intellectual property development. Interesting technologies and some leading edge areas across various domains.

Cons

Often hard to take an idea, such as new product, and be successful in getting backing for concept and moving swiftly to get simple product without having to kill the budget with all kinds of release requirements.

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