IBM Software Designer reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

43% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Software Designer employees have rated IBM with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Designer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Designer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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70 reviews
2.0
Aug 3, 2017

Definitely not a great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance, people, environment

Cons

pay, company trajectory, career growth

5.0
Jul 5, 2017

salary

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The salary comes on time and there is one time bonus

Cons

There is no cons as such now .

1.0
Jun 28, 2017

Bad Experience

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I learned a lot, which will help me with future jobs.

Cons

Where to start. I honestly can't decide what was worse, the projects or the people. The project I worked on was miserable, and every single person on the team wanted to leave (and many eventually did, even the manager, who told us she really didn't want to be here anymore). And then there was the people. What do you get when you mix inexperience with over confidence? You guessed it! An IBMer. Every single day I had to sit across from a coworker who continually bragged about his accolades and achievements, meanwhile doing absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, this guy was not an anomaly at IBM Design. During Design Bootcamp, there was so much immaturity among the new hires that some designers flat out REFUSED to work with each other, and therefore had to be separated (kind of like in Kindergarten when one kid steals the other's crayon). One girl even started crying when another girl critiqued her wireframe "too harshly" and went and told on her to a design lead. I wish I was joking. I would sit back and watch all this happen, completely floored by the fact that people like this had passed the culture fit part of the interview.

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