IBM Software Developer reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(5,887 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,887 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
May 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice rural campus - Flexible working - Good pension

Cons

- constant focus on low performance management. Teams have targets for people to be placed on PIPs - lack of promotion opportunities. - Regular redundancies - Remote senior management now nothing about local teams or culture - Jobs being moved to low cost countries - constant changes to senior managers mean little continuity - salaries low compared to the competition (although this doesn't seem to affect the CEO) - teams are forced to use sub-standard IBM tools - lack of investment in Hursley site

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