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IBM "Salary" Reviews
Updated 5 Apr, 2025
Overall Rating
4.0/5
based on 3.4k reviews
8% above industry's average
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5
10.6k (45.8%)
4
7k (30.4%)
3
3k (12.9%)
2
1k (4.4%)
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1.5k (6.4%)
Category Ratings
4.1
Work-Life Balance
3.9
Company Culture
3.9
Job Security
3.9
Skill Development
3.7
Work Satisfaction
3.5
Salary
3.2
Promotions
What employees say about IBM?
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Workplace insights
Hybrid
77% employees reported
Monday to Friday
83% employees reported
Flexible timing
77% employees reported
No travel
66% employees reported
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Gender based rating
4.0
Rated by Women
7.2k reviews
4.0
Rated by Men
14.6k reviews
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Likes: Employees are encouraged to continue learning and developing their skills through access to toptier tech and resources
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">The salary is competitive, and the opportunities for </mark>learning are unmatched
There’s a strong commitment to mental health, with resources such as counseling services and wellness initiatives available to all employees
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance, salary and benefits, no pressure</mark>.
My sincere advise, don’t leave IBM until it is so much necessary you to move out.
IBM is far better than any company outside. 
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Dislikes: No, I don’t think of negatives and dislikes about it.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Tech lead - Tech Mahindra or IBM
I have 2 offers in same location : Need guidance to choose one
1) Tech Mahindra (U4)
Fixed 23.9 Variable 2.6=26.5
No joining bonus
Project details informed already
2)IBM(7B)
Fixed 21.37 + Variable 0-10%
Joining bonus is 1 lakh
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Likes: Nothing, old employees staying in the company in their comfort zone 14-15 years with big ego. Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Ibm policy
No salary increase
Nothing good
No work life balance
No good projects all are clean up activity
No job roles peoples are out anywhere
One of the worst workforce/resource management team i have seen in my exp</mark>.
Even though you get client appreciation you won't get notified or... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Likes: work cultured
workspace environment really like
open scope for new technology
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">there is less job security
salary not so good
forget about promotion</mark>
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">The hire at a high salary thenk keep you on bench</mark>. Then they ask you to resign as you are on bench. Don't resign. Dislikes: 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 Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Salary is decent in India Software Labs, equivalent of Tier 2 PBCs</mark>. 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 ove... Read More
Dislikes: 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, especial... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">good salary, good learning platform like udemy business and some internal portals</mark> 
Dislikes: 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 Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Likes: Work life balance is good and good number of projects
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Salary hike and promotions are big concerns here</mark>. 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 comp... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: 1. IBM as a global brand and the culture truly reflects that
2. Opportunities to learn new cutting edge technology
3. Work life balance to some extent
4. Very process oriented company - so things will move slow.
Dislikes: 1. Slow career growth as it is a big company, may old timers are there at the same designation for years
2<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. Minimum to no salary hike (you can't bit the inflation)
3</mark>. Sometime you will need to deal with workplace politics
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: General policies are good.
3 days work from office, but not strictly enforced.
No fixed hours to spend in office, that depends between teams<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">.
promotions and pay cycles depends on your importance and how good the team is doing in the organisation</mark>.
managers are helpful and respectful towa... Read More
Dislikes: Internal movement between teams is almost always a fight.
Often people are made to work in mixed bag of tasks/technologies, that might make one a jack of all trades and makes specialisation in one/some skillset go away.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: - Employee friendly work culture and policies
- Can receive hybrid or full WFH depending on project
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">- Minimal salary increments and benefits
- Work experience is subjective to your project</mark>
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: Depends upon the team you are working with, generally a nice company with very convenient workspace and culture <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">.
No strict timings ,Salary is Good 👍🏻</mark>
Dislikes: Medical insurance and other benefits are average. No cab facility for us .
Most of team members reporting that they have less work life balance and additional working hours.
Likes: Liked initially about the work life balance and quality work but it lasted for few months. Dislikes: Extremely manager<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;"> centric company, no visibility for good work, no hike no promotion for many many years, </mark>and recently company culture in many specific teams got extremely toxic.
Work Details
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: Work life balance is superb. Also you apprised what you did all the time.
Dislikes: Promotion process is not good<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. If you are on higher package in your band limit then don't think about the promotion for 3-4 years</mark>.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Salary and work satisfaction</mark>
Dislikes: Job security isn't there for contract employers. They'll release the employee in the last minute of notice period.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: It a very good experience working for IBM We learn many things work life balance is very good
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Coming to promotion and salary very very bad when we question </mark>they will treat like a Slavers and need to wait for longer time
Work Details
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Take home salary looks matching to annual CTC</mark>.
Dislikes: HR department is very dummy and a manager can do anything even it is spoiling employee carear and also Manager directly says in front of employee, when there is no one listening. Manager directly blackmails employee with help of this culture
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">salary on time </mark> Dislikes: no job security and they pressurise you to work on saturday sunday as well there is no promotion people manager have so much power he always keep you in cage of fears if your people manager is “shweta agarwal” then change the manager or resing from IBM
Work Details
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: Job security - there are so many projects. If you are on bench then don't worry if you have skills.
Dislikes: There is nothing like annual/yearly appraisal<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">.
You can be on same package for 4 years no matter how hard you work</mark>. 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 ok... Read More
Likes: Lot of projects available to engage people.
More Onsite opportunity .
Dislikes: Skills are under utilized due to project pressure<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">.
Salary is low compared to market standard and appraisal takes lot of time</mark>.
Insurance policy is poor.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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