Is IBM a good company to work for as a Application Developer Senior Engineer?

Application Developer Senior Engineer professionals working at IBM have rated their employer with 3.9 out of 5 stars in 267 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of IBM employees being 3.9 out of 5 stars. Search open Application Developer Senior Engineer Jobs at IBM now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Application Developer Senior Engineer interview questions at IBM .

Does IBM pay Application Developer Senior Engineer employees well?

Application Developer Senior Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at IBM with 3.2 out of 5 stars based on 267 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 11.8% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Application Developer Senior Engineer salaries at IBM.

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What are the pros of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and good to be able to work from home although that’s often at the discretion of your manager" ((in 10973 reviews)); "The people are great and the Extreme Blue program was excellent for learning principles of product design." ((in 4997 reviews)); "Flexible timings and work from home option(i gotta laptop thats why i enjoy this privilege)" ((in 4352 reviews)); "1. Extremely good work culture 2. Packages are good 3. Direct contact to senior level employees" ((in 3400 reviews)); "Good benefits; IBM prides itself on being a leader in Healthcare Benefits and incentives for healthy living." ((in 3381 reviews))

What are the cons of working at IBM according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and the increment was less than 2% even top performer unless you got band promotion" ((in 5425 reviews)); "• Hard to get a promotion unless you have a good manager that is respected and fights for you" ((in 2176 reviews)); "The pay is low and not much hope it will get better even through hard work and delivering results" ((in 1996 reviews)); "No Salary hike.No On site opportunity.Very few are lucky getting visas and traveled to on" ((in 1746 reviews)); "Poor leadership: One senior exec's ego is much larger than his brain; no longer values employees." ((in 620 reviews))

IBM Application Developer Senior Engineer reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(267 total reviews)

Arvind Krishna

93% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

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Application Developer Senior Engineer employees have rated IBM with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 267 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Application Developer Senior Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IBM is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Application Developer Senior Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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267 reviews

4.0

Jul 10, 2025

Good experience

Senior applications developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Multiple project opportunities. Employee Friendly

Cons

There is no cons here

4.0

Jul 8, 2025

Good company to work with

Senior application developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

We receive bonus and bluepoints

Cons

Mostly all are client projects

1.0

Jun 25, 2025

Poor company policies and poor people management

Senior application developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

No pros as such. IBM GBS is not a great place to work for.

Cons

They hire a lot of employees to show their bench strength to get projects. But they might not get projects. Long bench period. Meanwhile in the bench period, people manager might ask you to resign, promising financial benefits. But ,at the end, you will end up getting 90 days base pay. The role of workforce manager is not needed. You have to find open positions on your own. Contributions to lighthouse is not considered as productive. Better not to contribute to lighthouse and pay attention to get projects. Less pay and poor policies compared to banks and big 4 firms. Mediclaim premium has to be paid by the employee.

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