IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,158 total reviews)
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Arvind Krishna

69% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,158 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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2.0
Sep 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Diverse domains, technologies, people, culture help foster the growth of employees, work life balance options

Cons

Very difficult to change technologies, different projects work in isolation, lots of leaders without much direction to the teams, too much of emphasis on watson with few less results.

3.0
Sep 26, 2017

IBM 3Q 2017 State of the Union

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Diverse opportunities. - Many locations to work in. - Lots of in-house technology available to pick from. - Some skilled individuals to work with. - The company will take care of its employees. In cases of natural disasters they are on top of things and ready to help. There is near 0 chance of discrimination of any kind, this is not something that IBM messes around with. - Many experts available to consult in just about any area of technology, and business. -

Cons

- Poor technical leadership, too many promotions to higher level technical positions that are based on politics, friendships, side-deals, and based on upper management perceived "success". Many high level technical folks manage up and are disconnected with the folks under them providing no real technical leadership for the ones doing the real work. - Too much focus on dates, time-to-market. This trumps quality of the products, solutions, and services. BAD. The company is very large, so this tends to be driven by the culture established by the executives responsible for the various areas. - Many in management think a head count is a head count, they don't understand skill levels.

3.0
Sep 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility,work life balance,work from home,different technology

Cons

No stability of Projects,Hike is at very minimal rate.Very disappointing.No value of your current skills,rather they need and expect more and more.

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