IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

Terrible corporate politics and policies, official company policy is to replace all its "non-essential" NA staff with people from developing countries. Performance rating system is seriously flawed and pits employees against one another instead of encouraging collaboration. Starting salary was reasonable but increases are less than inflation and the company no longer pays for overtime in Canada.

Management at all levels renege on their promises, from earned retirement pensions and medical benefits to earned comp-time. For example, at 2nd line management direct request I put in over 400 hours of unpaid overtime over a 3 month period to help get a hot project out and when I went to use the banked time after project completion, per prior management agreement, management denied it and allowed me to have NOTHING. Working 60+ hours per week, my raises average 1.1% for the last 4 years. Insufficient return on investment for this job.