IBM Kolkata Reviews

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Likes - Advocates skill development through learning, unlearning and relearning approaches. Process oriented to ensure robust governance at all levels. Leave policies better than other top MNCs.

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HR roles and responsibilities and their visibility could be better. Flexibility in office hours results in odd timming for employees who have family responsibilities, and by and large is at the hands of your reporting manager. 75% of the large accounts and associated project work is US and UK based, consequently employee end up working at odd hours, thereby taking dents at work life balance. Annual increments could be rationalized to match industry standards, salary disparity for an employee at 'a' position with similar skills and industry demand is wide, and often snubbed without a logical correction in compensation slabs for the position....Read More

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Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country, International Travel.

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No doubt working with prestigious organisation like IBM is a eye catcher. Company will force you to learn anytime. So you will learn a lot through, learning assignment , free premium udemy, wfh facility.

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Only Salary. What you get at the time of joining , will be fixed. No increment in any manner. There is no standard to that. So make sure ,you ask higher. They will deny on this but it is true. It is not Limited to me having 3 yrs in IBM but others who has 7 years too has the same issue.

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IBM is good at work-life balance after working more than 7 years in IBM one thing I can say one will find very rare work place where people will not say anything once job is done , if any one can do their job none will tell anything.

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Promotion and appraisal process , one should get judged by his/her work not the relationship having between manager and reportee, relationship has to be good with all but it should not be the only criteria for getting promotion and appraisal. It was really tough for me to leave IBM as it's my dream company since college time I left IBM because of manager.

Work Details

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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1. Wonderful work Environment 2. Job security 3. Recognition for a good work 4. Good work life balance 5. Hybrid work culture 6. Work Autonomy

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Hikes need to be improved

Work Details

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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IBM is a liberal company. You have to complete your work in the given time frame that's it. When you are coming and going that doesn't matter actually.

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The increment process is very bad.

Work Details

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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Nothing as such, it was good company earlier but now.

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No good projects in IBM Consulting, all are support projects. If you don't get project with in 2 months, then you are fired(forcefully resignation). Also without PR it's difficult to get project. For everything management will threat to put you in PIP. No salary hike.

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Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Good people, good work environmemt and culture specially if you get chance to work on European projects.

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Less on projects. 2 months on bench and you can sense danger.

Work Details

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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Opportunity to learn new things at your own pace with IBM sponsoring most of the certification fees

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Promotions do not happen to those who work in support roles / non client facing roles, they are left to rot in same work even for 8- 10 years without any promotion whatsoever and salary hike is less than 2% and drastically less than market driven rates of similar IT competitors

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