IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(5,763 total reviews)
avatar

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 5,763 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).

Reviews by job title

6K reviews
2.0
Jan 27, 2014

IBM is going away

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IBM used to be a really good company.

Cons

IBM is going to reduce itself to nothing. The stock market in the last 6 months has been responding to this. IBM stock price dropped during the market recovery.

3.0
Jan 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relax atmosphere, Not so many deadline pressure

Cons

Not so much focus on Software development, Can be out-dated from state of art software development

2.0
Jan 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nice to have on resume, possibility to meet some nice, skilled people

Cons

politics, scrambling to get things done, lack of communication, overworked and overtasked, replacing seniors with cheap and inexperienced labor which leads to poor quality software

Viewing 5353 - 5355 of 5,763 Reviews

Glassdoor has 131,893 IBM reviews submitted anonymously by IBM employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if IBM is right for you.