Is IBM a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.9 out of 5 stars in 5,751 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.7 out of 5 stars based on 5,751 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 2.7% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries at IBM.

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at IBM?

78% of Software Developer employees at IBM would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 3% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated IBM with a 4.1 rating for work-life-balance, 4.2 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.0 rating for culture and values and 3.9 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at IBM?

Software Engineer (4346) , Applications Developer (2909) , Software Developer (2418) , Project Manager (2322) , Senior Software Engineer (2036) , Senior Consultant (1846) , Consultant (1843) , IT Specialist (1112) , Application Developer (1105) , Associate Systems Engineer (1030) , Business Analyst (1025) , Systems Engineer (871) , Manager (850) , Managing Consultant (848) , Intern (822)

What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 10973 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 4997 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4352 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3400 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3381 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5425 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2176 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 1996 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1746 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 620 reviews))

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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(5,751 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

70% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.0

Culture & values

3.9

Career opportunities

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Senior management

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,751 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0

Mar 6, 2010

Decent place to work; completely depends on the group your in

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Large company, lots of room to join different groups * Bound to have very competent, intelligent people working alongside you * No myth about bureaucratic processes dragging down development * Most manager very fliexible about work, life balance * Many career development opportunities, perks that only a large company could offer * Jobs being outsourced

Cons

* Lots of lifers, particularly management who have no clue about life outside of IBM * Lots of layoffs, even while company is doing okay. IBM hides layoffs as resource actions to avoid having to report. 5000 people can apply for 5 open jobs.

4.0

Feb 12, 2010

Ok place to work

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible Work Options Decent Benefits Variety of work opportunities

Cons

Somewhat hard to advance Low worker moral -- the theme seems to be "take take take" right now with the bad economy Working above and beyond your job responsibility/hours is expected and not necessarily recognized

4.0

Feb 11, 2010

IBM

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

great culture , everyone is helping you out when you join. the management is pretty neat and takes in account for employees problems/issues

Cons

they have individual rooms to work for and thus there is nor collabortion as such between employees which is needed in todays world

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