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I am glad to work on IBM company to showcase my skills.
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Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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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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Earlier the company policy was good now there are lot of pressure and politics.
Politics all around, hr policy are now in worst condition.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Work from home police only.
Everything is good if you have good people manager and project manager then. If you resigned IBM they will give you low performance. And in final settlement you will not get your GDP, performance bonus any extra amount. You will get only leave encashment that's it. Thank you
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Just a Big name on your resume
You will be loaded with lot of things and no work life balance and just forget about your appraisal and promotion
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-Poor management -No work Life balance -Every time Management goes against IBM policies, they expect you to do overtime on regular basis and mandatory weekend working, if you standup for yourself they will humiliate you and move you to another process and same thing happens there as well.
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IBM has wide range of opportunities to develop skill , work life balance is good ( depends on project and manager )
Manager centric opportunities, Hike is less (3%-5%) , LPIC/ PIP Issue, No Cab Fecility,
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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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Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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