IBM General Manager salaries in Chennai

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IBM is amazing company to work with. There is job security, specially when most of the companies are releasing, terminating employees. Most of the people have made this place great to work. Company policies are very employees friendly and is very helpful. One of the very unique policy is that they provide loan as well in case of medical emergencies.

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Growth, hike, salary depends on manager, I think atleast salary should have a structure in place as per market and it should not have any control by managers.

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Work life balance, salary and benefits, no pressure. My sincere advise, don’t leave IBM until it is so much necessary you to move out. IBM is far better than any company outside.

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No, I don’t think of negatives and dislikes about it.

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Nothing, old employees staying in the company in their comfort zone 14-15 years with big ego.

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Ibm policy No salary increase Nothing good No work life balance No good projects all are clean up activity No job roles peoples are out anywhere One of the worst workforce/resource management team i have seen in my exp. Even though you get client appreciation you won't get notified or awarded by ibm Worst project mangers and program mangers

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.