IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(5,756 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

70% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,756 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Sep 6, 2012

A life in corporation

Recommend
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Pros

In the first years, the atmosphere was great. There was a lot of great minds from all over the world you could work with. The company had so tremendous impact on the IT history, it was great honor to work there. Some of the projects were very interesting to work with.

Cons

Gradually, more and more privileges for the employees were removed. What was once prestigious place to work, became a sad, low payed environment full of frustrated engineers. And all of this happened while company had record earnings.

3.0
Sep 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technical work. Smart people. Good benefits. Ability to make significant contributions. Ability to learn a variety of technologies.

Cons

No job security. Management changes too frequent ( new manager every year). Big company woes. Politics.

4.0
Sep 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A company with good benefits, no corruption and with great challenges. As is distributed all over the world only global economy crisis affects its financial part.

Cons

10 to 12 hours of work a day. The challenges are great but no recognized as great as they are. First line managers are widely (inside and outside the company) as a weak point.

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