IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

Stay employed is the greatest challenge in this company and fear to let be go for a silly reason is daily thought. While upper management is sacrificing skills for outsourcing to non competent team in Asia I am not sure that this company is US driven anymore particularly when the reason is job suppression and the mission is transferred to India.

Little to no support for long term planning. Everything is focused on the stock price, There is no apparent long term planning. IBM buys smaller companies, does minimal effort to merge the newly acquired products with others before selling to their customers and squeezing every last dollar out. With little or no support the flow of dollars is eventually reduced, the product sold to another company and the process starts again. IBM does not innovate. Has lost mind share as it has no products targeted toward the consumer market and newer purchasing managers have never heard of them. Finally, the skills developed at IBM are IBM centric. While they will sometimes contribute to open source they don't sell it to customers. Learning how to do things the IBM way is not transferable to other companies and in most cases will make you a skills dinosaur in a few years.