IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,155 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

74% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,155 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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2K reviews
2.0
Jul 21, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent people to work with. Challenging job assignments. You get to work with a lot of modern technology

Cons

Management is brutal towards employees. Yearly layoffs that are random cuts no matter how good you are ( e.g. really good developer was promoted one month, laid off two months later) Very cheap company ( e.g. no budget for training / education, laptop upgrade only every 5 years) Very short term vision for management focus on expense reduction ( e.g. Hardware is not provided to test software because it is too expensive) Pay and benefits are below average.

2.0
Jul 9, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Let you work remote trust you to get your work done, no micromanaging great coworkers interesting work

Cons

ridiculous policies for performance reviews(pbcs). Perfectly good people get low reviews and great people get passed over for top ratings because they follow an algorithm instead of honestly rating work Top execs do not value their employees very little training/investment in employees changed the 401K match to yearly matching so they can freely lay off people and save $$ Do not allow much transfer between departments

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