IBM Engineering - Software & QA Department Salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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...trictly 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.

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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.

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...king with, generally a nice company with very convenient workspace and culture . No strict timings ,Salary is Good 👍🏻

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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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Work life balance is superb. Also you apprised what you did all the time.

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Promotion process is not good. If you are on higher package in your band limit then don't think about the promotion for 3-4 years.

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salary on time

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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

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Job security - there are so many projects. If you are on bench then don't worry if you have skills.

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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