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My experience at IBM

Java Fullstack Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 1, 2020
Zapopan, Jalisco
2.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

It has good benefits, superior to those mandated by law.

It has its own learning site, where it has compendiums of tutorials and internal and external courses on many IT-related topics.

You can meet many talented people.

Cons

All intellectual property you create while employed belongs to them, which legally prevents you from having your own projects outside the company.

The company is so large and has such large clients that an employee can get lost very easily. That is to say, sometimes you can be doing nothing, but still having to forcibly waste time at your desk to meet hours. It is not easy to change projects, and in general, your boss(es) do not care much about what you do or don't do as long as the client is happy with you (has no complaints about you).

Unfortunately, in my experience, my time there has been consumed more in bureaucracy and paperwork than in software development. My time has been spent more on things like:

  • Filling out reports, both for the client and for the company (many and of different formats and purposes).
  • Documenting everything I do.
  • Constantly taking mandatory courses (not IT, but HR and similar things).
  • Etc.
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