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Great Learning, Poor Feature Work

Front End Developer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for 1 year
August 30, 2018
Ottawa, Ontario
5.0
Pros

The product is fairly interesting insofar as it is a large and non-trivial user interface, with a lot of different components interacting with one another. As such, it is a great learning experience.

The work-life balance was great and included the opportunity to work remotely on occasion. The team was excellent in terms of both their onboarding/ramp-up process and their mentorship throughout.

Competitive compensation.

  • Free gym membership and personal trainer
  • Occasional social outings covered by the company
Cons

I ended up mostly working on defects (with a bit of QA). It would have been nice to do feature development as well, but the whole team was in a defect-fixing mode during the entirety of my stay. The onsite food is not free or (so far as I can tell) subsidized.

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