IBM

IBM knows that you grow in your life as you grow in your career and makes space for that. If you can do the bare minimum at a certain time, it’s not the end of the world. If you can go over the top, your work will be appreciated with bonuses, raises, and opportunities in my experience. It’s a good place to grow.

They "enterprise" for other enterprises, so things move slowly compared to other tech companies. They are slower to adopt new concepts and methodologies than other tech companies. In my experience, everywhere they say they do agile development is truly waterfall masked as agile. But I don’t have much to compare to, so maybe that’s normal.

It’s waterfall, not agile. Pretending it’s agile just makes dates harder to hit. Also, too often dates get promised before designs are understood. Big business relationships give offering management opportunities to make commitments that don’t have clear plans to execute, so half-baked tech is rushed out to hit a requirement at the expense of automation and comprehensive testing.