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Good Benefits, Tough Climb

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for 4 years
August 31, 2016
3.0
Pros

Good benefits such as 401k, vacation, insurance, and flexibility to work from home to a certain extent.

Cons

As an engineer, unless you are brilliant, it is pretty tough to move up the ladder. Raises were not given very easily, and you really had to suck up to management and brown nose tons of people to climb up. Also, depending on your team, your work can either be very invigorating or very dull.

Advice to Management

Try to help engineers climb up the ladder and be more concrete about it.

A lot of wasted talent is not utilized properly, and many engineers get discouraged when there is no potential for a raise. This isn't because the engineer didn't work hard enough, but because the engineer is not a genius and hasn't appeased upper management with brown-nosing.

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