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Challenging and rewarding for software engineers

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
October 22, 2011
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Pros

IBM has many opportunities for software engineers, ranging across a broad set of product teams within IBM's software group. There are many opportunities for growth and innovation.

Cons

There is really no single valid opinion about working at IBM, since almost half a million employees worldwide have different environments, managers, etc. Working with remote colleagues is mostly fine, but can sometimes be a challenge. In the worst cases, I have seen teams of 10 or 12 people, none of whom work in the same location. This can be challenging.

Advice to Management

Please create more opportunities for software engineers to prototype and demo new ideas, without feeling like they will get in trouble. See Google, 3M, etc.

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