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Big, slow, and chaotic

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
May 10, 2016
Austin, Texas
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Health benefits, good PTO and sick time, and a good 401 match.

The pride of being associated with a technology giant.

Cons

Unless you happen to be working in the right group, you may find the whole IBM experience a bit unnerving. A mentor probably would help.

(They tell you this in the orientation, but hey, who's paying attention. :-))

The idea of managers just being people managers and the architects managing the technical details, in my humble opinion, is a bad strategy.

Advice to Management

The first-level managers should be technically savvy, somebody with real-world programming experience.

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