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A decent place to work if you don't stay forever

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
November 28, 2010
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

Exposure to/dealings with lots of Fortune 500-level companies as customers (worldwide, actually).

Opportunity for experience with many major enterprise technologies (IBM's and other proprietary vendors, as well as open source), including:

  • DB2
  • WebSphere
  • Eclipse
  • AIX
  • ClearCase
Cons

Fairly bureaucratic. The customer focus mandated from top management means that technological innovation is considered less important, despite company lip service to "innovation jams" and the like. Sometimes innovation seems to be a non-goal, other than for frequent reminders to file for patents.

Advice to Management

More managers should be hired with recent (or at least relevant, i.e. not FORTRAN) hands-on programming experience, preferably those that have shipped successful products.

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