IBM Senior Software Engineer reviews

Huge size makes it difficult to keep on top of what is going on. Top ranks are extremely difficult to attain, and heavily populated by a population close to retirement.

The company is a behemoth, and with large scale comes processes and cold impersonality - its unavoidable. The company had laudable policies re "people first" and compensation, much of that has gone away. If you're outside the mainstream business, you'll likely be struggling for resources and the attention of policy makers. Much of the internal technology si not competitive with what we find on the internet, and this is an unfortunate burden for the company. Opportunities are subject to the usual competition, do not go to IBM expecting to be a software architect without proving yourself for a decade or more of dues against a bunch of talented others.