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Only hiring process and initial offered salary
Micromanagement Profile mismatch JD mismatch with actual roles and responsibility Work Pressure No support from management Wrong feedback
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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General policies are good. 3 days work from office, but not strictly enforced. No fixed hours to spend in office, that depends between teams. promotions and pay cycles depends on your importance and how good the team is doing in the organisation. managers are helpful and respectful towards employees in general. one have scope and opportunity to grow skills, contribute to open source, blogs, disclosures....Read More
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 policy: 3 days/week from office
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- Employee friendly work culture and policies - Can receive hybrid or full WFH depending on project
- Minimal salary increments and benefits - Work experience is subjective to your project
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Work satisfaction and good learning development.
There won't be any promotion and hike and if an employee work with 200 %dedication ,their won't be any hike at all.I mean how employee will be motivated for the next year and finally they will leave the company.If you need any HR support or IT support,there is no helpdesk number.You have to depend on chat bot which are worst.They neva give proper reply which you really want from them.
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I am working in IBM Security. IBM got really good work-life balance. The work hours are flexible, no one will pressurize you into doing things.
The hikes are not that great. Even switching projects is a very difficult. If you are a graduate hire then you must atleast work for 18 months in the initial project, no matter you are interested or not.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IBM is great place to work. IBM ensures your job security in what ever the circumstances. IBM have good projects from which we will get work satisfaction. It's a great place for work and development.
IBM provides less hike and appraisal
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IBM provides opportunities for cross learning which is good but due to lot of work pressure you will not be able to take benefit of that
No work life balance, No hikes, No promotion, micro management, No extra activities, no employee benefits. It is a waste company to work
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Work Life Balance. Learning opprotunity and above all IBM culture amazing.
TAC concept. There some senior manager keeping their job unnecessarily block resource and treate as a labour and assigned multiple project as an outcome client unsatisfactory of performance
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Salary is not upto market/industry standards.Too much of dependency with manager for employees growth.manager can make you hero or zero which is not the idle policy for any company.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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They considered me for H1b and filed my petition in 8 months after my joining
After receiving H1B they never approved my travel and you are forced to stay there for less salary. Don't take joining bonus, get maximum take home salary before joining. In percentage you will receive like 8-10 percent hike but in 3 years you will be less paid and have less knowledge as you work for some client.
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IT Security Department
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Ample learning opportunities via Coursera and Udemy.
No salary hikes. Customer is the king and will use you to wipe their as*es. Top management is terrible and living in IBM for 10+years.
Work policy: 3 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
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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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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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.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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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.
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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