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Great benefits, awkward teams

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
April 1, 2010
Austin, Texas
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Pros

Benefits are wonderful. Lots of job security once you're in and doing well. They keep you till you're old. Pay is pretty competitive. Team leaders are brilliant people.

Cons

Extremely bureaucratic and political. You work with some developers who aren't the sharpest at their game, but surprisingly, no one gets let go. Some code so slowly or use outdated tools it's amazing anything ends up working. Products ship with many deferred defects because some developers can't get their work done.

Advice to Management

Periodically train developers with new technologies or recommend tools to keep them from becoming inefficient.

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