How is the office food at IBM?

- Supportive work environment - Collaboration with colleague across multiple countries and regions - Initial home office with one day per week in the office - An amazing palette of free and valuable trainings - both from IBM and other vendors - Cheaper Multisport card than average - Bluepoints for employee recognition that can be used in IBM's internal marketplace for merchandise and experiences

- Salaries far below the average for the sector - Constant threats from higher management to either come back to the office or leave IBM since March 2023 - Local management decided to change the office location from Business Park to the fields next to Sofia airport (extremely inconvenient for all modes of transportation) - No viable career growth opportunities even if you actively search for them - No food vouchers or free coffee in the office in comparison to other companies - Less options for lunch at the new office location

Nice community, beautiful office, free schedule, no pressure

No salary review, no benefits

* Stable job, good pay initially when you switch from other company to IBM. * Opportunity to learn and grow

* Annual hike is not great (usually less than 10%, and promotions takes longer timeframe like 3-4 years) * No remote working (It's hybrid) * No free food and snacks from the company, we can see this kind of meals, snacks from the office for free in few IT companies. * No office busses to commute to your location. Buses will drop only to nearest metro station to office.

Good WLB, interesting work, free snacks

Sometimes they dont fill up the good snacks

Working at IBM as an intern was a great experience, perhaps mostly because it was my first relevant experience in the field. The team I worked in and my supervisor were helful and nice. I received a welcome package with IBM merch on the start of my internship. I thought that was nice! There were also some events that were organized amongst team memebers, or company-wide like barbecue, launch events etc.

There's a canteen/kitchen that serves lunch everyday. While the food was usually good, I guess I expected it to be covered by IBM since I imagined it a big company, but you pay for the lunch if you eat there, or it is taken out of the salary at the month's end. (Note that I subconscoiusly placed IBM on a similar level as Google, Meta, and the likes, where food and other resources in the office are usually free).

- Great place to start your career. - I got to work with relatively smart coworkers. (They were definitely . smarter than me.) - I got to experience working with relatively large code bases, database development, (Operating Systems and Distributed Systems courses really helped a lot.) - You gotta be good at C/C++/Python/Perl.

- Snacks are not as good as other FAANG companies :) - Had to write tests in Perl :( - Compile times might take longer than 10-20 mins sometimes.

good team to learn from, they will teach you

there is no halal food in the buffet

Chill WL balance Cool coworkers Free snacks + coffee

Generally bureaucratic Disconnect between upper levels of management

People are very nice here. Seniors are willing to teach. Good benefits. Pretty nice coffee.

I don’t think there is con

- Ok salary - Looks good on a CV - Good work-life balance (I was never asked to stay overtime) - Free credit for equipment when you start and renewed every year

- No bonuses of any kind - DEI hell - Bad tech: many of the key websites I use every day are painfully slow - Management wants you in office even when you're working with teams overseas - Pay for everything in office: drinks, snacks, lunch - Office is far from everything and no compensation for transport