IBM Recruitment Professional salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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Liked initially about the work life balance and quality work but it lasted for few months.

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Extremely manager centric company, no visibility for good work, no hike no promotion for many many years, and recently company culture in many specific teams got extremely toxic.

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Business partners are supportive.

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No defined process, no work life balance, no fair pay policy, no job security, no appreciation. TA department Employees are working 10 to 12 hours frequently. Have to work in weekends as well and no compensation against it.

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Good exposure and learnt a lot since you have to learn to do things across various functions as there is no support from management

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...ven if you go for 11 out of 12 days and escalating against employees on this. Inspite of being the best performer, no appreciation email or blue points ever received, no bonus as contractors are not eligible for it inspite of working 12+ hrs a day and no hike, no benefits, no wfh, not able to leave early and mandatory campus hiring events outside of regular work with no credit for it, mandatory going for office lunches and events and need to pay for yourself in pathetic food places.

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Nothing

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...his blood and torturing innocent members of the team is his favourite time pass. No promotion no salary hike no conversion. Stay away from IBM HR folks.

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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.