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An excellent company to work for and have a family life

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 6 years
May 22, 2014
Seattle, Washington
5.0
Pros

The environment is very accommodating to individual needs. The management realizes that the salaries are not the greatest in the industry and so is willing to throw in extra undocumented freebies: flexible work hours and time-off.

Cons

The individual is often not rewarded fairly, i.e., not proportional to the work they do. The bonus is 5% when you get the best rating. Stocks are not awarded to engineers.

Advice to Management

Engineers are core to the business, but management thinks that programming can be done by anyone. The company seems to have an inordinate number of managers and project managers.

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