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Management is worst. They want to take as much work from employee as possible but they won't give promotion or hike an employee deserves.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Hikes/Promotion are little low compared to industry standards
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Learning opportunities are immense and you can apply all the knowledge here.
Compensation structure & career progression is poor if you join as a graduate hire & plan to stay for a long time.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Excellent company to work for and more support and assistance from your peers.
No drawbacks
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Work does not match with my area of interest.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Health insurance, free courses on Udemy, free coffee and good office setup.
Lack of work life balance. It all depends on the manager you get, whether it becomes toxic or not.
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Pros: 1. WORK LIFE BALANCE 2. CULTURE 3. NEW SKILL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Cons: 1. Hike is nominal 2. Promotion methodology is difficult to understand.
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I had a really good time working in IBM. I was lucky enough to get a chance to change my skillset and jump into Generative AI which is the on-going most wanted skillset and worked on really good projects. The mentors and senior management is really good to help you discover new opportunities.
The only dislike is they don't give good hikes
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Good Work, Get opportunities to develop new skills.
From past few years, They are blindly maintaining only attendance, without thinking its impact. Anyone is coming on any day. There is no team bonding as no one following the same day or atleast they should have 5 days compulsory in every month for one team, which will make them to know who all are there in the team. Mangers will give bad ratings if your attendance is not good. You work is secondary these days....Read More
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Insecure senior people, no growth, no learning, old technology, copy paste attitude, no skilled functional consultant, zero retention attitude for leaving people, harrasement.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, Travel Within City.
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It depends upon the project, if unfortunately you stuck into wrong project the the Team lead take all your work credits manager will do its own favoritism and politics.
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1. No monitoring on people instead allowing them to complete their work peacefully (but, few cases depending on project) 2. Location flexibility - if project location is flexible, you can work from any IBNM's location. 3. Skill development - There is so many opportunities to develop our skills through certification, free learning platforms 4. Company culture is very nice. We can feel that we are working in foreign based MNC. Good budget allocation for team outing and lunch. Continuous events and parties to engage the people....Read More
1. One and only thing is there is no project assignment system or workforce management system to assign projects based on your skills. Exception: if we have good skills and if we know how to look next assignment, there could be possibility to avoid above concern. Otherwise IBM always good choice.
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You can easily take sick leaves.
Small term and very outdated projects. In interview even in client interview also they will ask questions like NASA but at ground level you will get work like a fresher. If you are an experienced person your all knowledge will get rusted here. And if by any chance you want to change the project. You need to face very bad politics. If you get frustrated and want to resign, you can not leave before 90 days. The buy out policy is there but your manager will not accept it....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Good technical team at cloud A lot of learnings for new talents Expert management in reducing hikes
Unnecessary learnings throughout the year at least at cloud Appraisal on jan however hikes on July No professional growth Fixing side effects of a fix gives an impression that the talent is working consistently Bloating ones work gets attention
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Job security - there are so many projects. If you are on bench then don't worry if you have skills.
There is nothing like annual/yearly appraisal. You can be on same package for 4 years no matter how hard you work. They will only point out for "out of the box like independently developed some AI toll or equivalent to it" thing and at this point you will loose the battle. If you are okay to get yearly 1-2% hike on overall package then only you should join
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Salary: Salary hike is only 2-3%. Promotion: It does not matter whether you are ready of promotion or not. If some one ask for salary correction as per market. They simply initiate for process promotion.
Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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Company has great policies Everything is on paper looking good
Company rooted with brahmin politics rooted to the core. All of the higher management old age retirement people occupying all senior jobs with ilegal way Making the company progress very slow Making sure hard working people are cornered and make their life hell and will indirectly target them All of the people are micromanaged And they dont have security all of the people data they are stealing Employee conversation and chat are revealted to higher manager even anonymous reviews...Read More
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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The hire at a high salary thenk keep you on bench. Then they ask you to resign as you are on bench. Don't resign.
They don't have any project or requirement. They just hire you to fill their bench. You will get project interviews but none of them will hire you even if your interview was good. And if the interview was bad they will send that review to your WFM which they can later use to justify ending your employment.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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The work life balance depends on the manager and work that you are assigned to.
There are no promotions until 3 of employment. For that again you need some industry training. After which managers will send your reference for promotion which again on account basis which can take time of a month, quarter or even a year.
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Salary is decent in India Software Labs, equivalent of Tier 2 PBCs. RSUs are also given to employees who perform well. IBM has turned its tech suite around after the RedHat acquisition, even for z/mainframe products. Newer tech stack is being implemented at breakneck pace, enough to overwhelm senior developers as well. Lots of opportunities to learn new stuff, including agentic AI. Job security is better than other PBCs for employees who perform well, but expect PIPs....Read More
You will get stuck in one job band for a very long time. Promotions from 7B to 8 are very hard in particular. Also, IBM India is the only entity among all IBM entities to have A and B subbands till job level 7 (tech lead), effectively prohibiting your growth to a decision-making position for a longer time. Indian management, especially managers who have moved laterally from IBM Consulting, is extremely orthodox, and technically inept. If your product delivery is controlled by an onshore lab (U.S., U.K., Germany, etc), expect the Indian management to have no understanding of what it is that you are doing on a day-to-day basis, and to be at loggerheads with the onshore managers. You, an ordinary employee, will no doubt be caught in the crossfire....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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good salary, good learning platform like udemy business and some internal portals
Micromanagement, some managers and senior architects are working since so long 15-20 years and they don't want any fresh and skilled person to stay they are in there comfort zone, worst reality is when i resigned no hr has connected with me even after raising a ticket manager has all the power.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Great Ethics and work-life balance. Employee is preferred over everything.
Less opportunities to grow and less scope for promotion. IBM does not matches the Market Standard pay for it's employee
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Great, innovation driven culture. Lots of opportunities for learning. Great ambience to work and motivating managers.
Uncertainty over job. Poor promotion culture where some of the associates get promoted easily and for others it is tough as anything. The perks too are being given that way only.
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Work life balance is good and good number of projects
Salary hike and promotions are big concerns here. Managers always brings your PMR ratio and will say that you are not eligible for hike. There is no HR interaction and everything should through PM. If your PMR is greater than 1, you'll never get a hike in your lifetime. So join the company with high package and never expect any hikes further.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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A hybrid work model. No need to come to the office. We can complete as many certifications as we want. No restrictions on the hours I can stay at the office. We can punch and go back home.
Favoritism is based on location. If you work with Kolkata people, they will just make use of you. They will exclusively focus on negative thoughts with you at the end of the year. Technical skills should be the basis of the rating score, not employee based location. Junior resources staff also have the rights to share feedback with their Lead or Manager to develop management strategies, so that everyone can help grow IBM more....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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