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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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flexible work culture, work life balance is high.
Wrong commitments of promotion. On-site very hard to achieve despite holding H1B Visa.
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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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Everything but I spent 5 years and no hike, no promotion.
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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DevOps Department
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Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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contract employees are use and throw
low wagie exploitation
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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work life balance, work culture, flexible timings, work form home
no salary hike, not much benefits...
Very good but no hike no appraisals
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Software Development Department
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IBM is very safe place to work. Especially woman employees. They will get work from home option.
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Enjoyed my work
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.
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Technology / IT Department
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Software Development Department
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work cultured workspace environment really like open scope for new technology
there is less job security salary not so good forget about promotion
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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IBM policy and learning.
No HR. Its difficult to report someone when facing issue in project because. You can raise issue to manager or higher manager itself. There must be a hr team.
Work policy: All days
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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,
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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Software Development Department
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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
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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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Software Development Department
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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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Software Development Department
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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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Software Development Department
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The types of projects and scope of learning is good.
People Manager culture. There is nothing you can do in company if PeM thinks to destroy your career. You have to cry alone no one is there to hear the greivences.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work timings: Flexible Timings
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Software Development Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Depends upon the team you are working with, generally a nice company with very convenient workspace and culture . No strict timings ,Salary is Good 👍🏻
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.
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Procurement & Purchase Department
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There is no any celebration or any gifts at Diwali holi nothing every process has there own celebration not combined celebration so some process didn't celebrate any India festival.
Work policy: In my process there is no any hybrid
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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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DBA / Data warehousing Department
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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
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Accounting & Taxation Department
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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.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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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Software Development Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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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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Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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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)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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