IBM Linux System Administrator salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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Benefits provided by IBM are good.

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Before joining, ask the department, if it is TSS, do not join. It is worst department to join, no hike,not much benefits, upper level management is worst. They dont care about employee they only care about customer.

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

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...fficult to get project. For everything management will threat to put you in PIP. No salary hike.

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IBM is really good company to work for, better work life balance, work culture, work satisfaction, transparency, team building activities and learning support everything is good.

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Low salary increments and promotions are hard to get.