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rating for International Business Machines Corporation

3.0 almost like the government posted by kimbo305 on November 27, 2006

IBM has very stable working conditions -- if you're a lousy coder, you're not going to get fired. You might get laid off, eventually. But in the meantime, you can coast your way through your career.

Or, if you want to, you should be able to fight the good fight, and cut through poor engineering infrastructure and actually get work done. Chances are it's easier to stand out at IBM if you work at it. But it takes serious effort and committment to make things happen. Be prepared for some unethusiastic coworkers and ridiculously backward/slow tools.

Pay is flat across the company, so it'll hurt if you relocate to expensive places like California, but it'll benifit you if you agree to go to places like North Carolina.

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    development process

    clear requirements 4.0
    design and planning 2.0
    quality assurance 2.0
    automated testing 2.0
    peer review 1.0
    development environment 3.0
    development hardware 3.0
    physical workspace 3.0
    infrastructure and support 1.0
    issue tracking 3.0
    source control 2.0
    product quality 3.0

    culture

    cultivation of creativity 2.0
    mitigation of risk 3.0
    reasonable workload 4.0
    prevention of crunch time 2.0
    hitting deadlines 3.0
    taking responsibility 4.0
    development autonomy 3.0
    keeping ego in check 4.0

    compensation

    salary 3.0
    health coverage 2.0
    paid time off 2.0
    snacks 1.0
    other perks 2.0

    organization

    advancement opportunities 3.0
    employee retention 2.0
    hiring process 1.0
    quality of development management 3.0
    quality of upper management 2.0
    quality of developers 2.0
    team-to-team communication 2.0
    internal team communication 3.0
    management-developer communication 3.0

    general

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    business model 2.0
    cool technology 3.0
    vision and strategy 2.0
    warm fuzzy feeling 1.0
    overall 3.0

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    development of Free Software 1.0
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    use of Java 4.0
    use of C# 2.0
    use of Objective-C 1.0
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