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 Developer Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,756 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Mar 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

IBM was a great place to work because of all the information sharing and availability of all employees through out the company. I was amazed to find out that almost 40% of IBM's software developers work remotely. This being said IBM makes all employees available to everyone for questioning. Don't know Perl? There is an IBM community dedicated to learning Perl where professionals share their opinions. This also follows for many other technologies.

Cons

Since I was just a co-op the project was a "nice to have" feature on a main product line. While the work was challenging, engaging, and fun, I couldn't help but feel that this might not make it into a release. And if it was to be released it wasn't going to be for a long while and they'll probably just have to re-write it since a lot of the product will have changed since then.

4.0
Mar 10, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good work life balance 2. Great brand name 3. Lot of options to move 4. Work freedom 5. Innovation is allowed

Cons

1. Disconnected management 2. Less responsibility 3. No clear understanding/segregation of duties 4. Numerous procedures 5. Software products not organised or optimised for work.

1.0
Feb 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Best perk is that there is flexible work time. Atmosphere is also generally good. One cubicle per developer. Working from home available.

Cons

Top management do not value IBM employees. To raise stock price and dividents, the has been a lot of layoffs of software engineers. I'm afraid to say more as not to loose my job. Managers use very well chosen words to tell you the absolutely minimum that's necessary. Benefits keep disappearing every year. Practically there are no perks to cut off right now.

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