Taro Logo

Not bad... Not great... IBM

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
August 25, 2008
Durham, North Carolina
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

IBM is very flexible, and there are a broad range of jobs to choose from if you are willing to raise your hand. Most of the successful people jump jobs every 2-3 years. The hours are flexible, and you can get a lot of jobs where you can work almost exclusively from home. If you are a solid developer, you probably won't have to work too hard to stay ahead, so you won't be putting in tons of overtime.

Cons

This company loves process more than any other place. They care about making sure they are up to ISO rules more than getting out a quality product to the customer. This leads to their strategy of buying up innovative companies, sucking their customers dry, and then moving their products to Asia/Pacific for maintenance. Oh, and even if the stock is doing great and profits are up, the Senior Management makes sure that your division will miss one metric so they can give you little to no raise and a small bonus.

Advice to Management

You all need to look past your own stock options and the quarter-to-quarter trickery for the shareholders and look at the 20-year plan of this company. Right now, with all the acquisitions, it is getting impossibly large.

Was this helpful?

IBM Interview Experiences