IBM Principal Software Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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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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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

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...n project). Appraisals are also good (which is depends on your peoples manager). But my suggestion is go with good package yo ibm.

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If u are having higher band it will be difficult to get projects. If u are not in project no job security.

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1. Working on latest technologies in few projects. 2. On time promotions if you are doing your job and working on client projects. 3. Good Annual hike compared to other service based companies.

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1. Entire work on few people in project, others will relax and take same salary or in many cases more than you. 2. Less clients and more internal projects which makes promotion delay, unless there is huge dependency you won't get promotion. 3. Promotion depend on no of employees under manager and his budget not on performance. 4. They will release from project just before appraisal so you won't get neither appraisal nor promotion.

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Everything Excellent company, work life balance is great Pay is decent not as great as others but it compensates it with other benefits.

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Might improve location allocation for employees, So can be near to their families.