Is IBM a good company to work for as a Senior Software Engineer?

Senior Software Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.9 out of 5 stars in 2,158 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Senior Software Engineer employees well?

Senior Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.6 out of 5 stars based on 2,158 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Engineer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Senior Software Engineer professionals working at IBM?

82% of Senior Software Engineer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 4% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Engineer professionals have also rated IBM with a 4.1 rating for work-life-balance, 4.1 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.0 rating for culture and values and 3.8 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at IBM?

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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 11026 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 5024 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4377 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3396 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3283 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 5454 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2182 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 2009 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1724 reviews)); "Poor Leadership; Weak Execution; Benefits to employees are getting worse; Money spent on dividends instead of R&D." ((in 619 reviews))

IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,158 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

69% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

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Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,158 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0

Jul 25, 2016

Good place to work

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good number of Banking Projects, sufficient work from home and sick leave.

Cons

Interiors are old, management not up to mark

3.0

Jul 21, 2016

Software Specilist

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

IBM provides a lot of training. It requires 40 hours of training minimum per year.

Cons

A lot of the training is centered on Sales. If you are have a client facing job it may go overseas as mine did. Then you are faced with looking for another job at IBM which I did not find put in for a few and was never even granted an interview. I think most programming jobs were directed overseas.

4.0

Jul 19, 2016

Interesting work, high pressure

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The amount of technology information available to IBMers is staggering. There is a plethora of directions to take your career if you want to change directions while there - and IBM management encourages you to move around if that's what you want. They have also been on a years long acquisition binge that provides constantly new fertile grounds for review and possible exploitation.

Cons

Middle management often does not listen to first line management about what is going in in the trenches. This leads to some glaring inefficiencies IBM will take as much as you can give (nothing wrong with that to a point) but they will not think about how that is affecting your life - EVER! (Well your immediate manager might, but likely will be helpless to do anything to ease the pressure) IBM seems to be on a slow road to ruin where cost cutting is concerned. Over many years they have repeatedly demonstrated that the employee is not that important, reducing or eliminating one perk/benefit after another, and now standard severance pay is one month!

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