IBM

Review for Product Development Division:

Great work culture. You are respected for what you are. One of the few places I have worked that had a high collection of brilliant and good-natured humans. In the long term, pay is catching up with the product development industry.

Middle management keeps on changing product directions, sometimes too often. This leads to slow execution velocity. This can be frustrating at times. Like other companies, they don't have a robust developer advocacy program, so don't expect the product/feature you worked on will ever be seen by the customer.

Draw up a product roadmap and stick with it, instead of pulling people off after every 12 months.

Force down a culture of product teams working with each other.

Currently, the products reflect the GMs and the VPs. Sometimes, two GMs have similar products, and customers are massively confused.