IBM Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

Knowledge and Learning
People Management Skills

Cons

Less Compensation
No overseas opportunities
Less career progression options

Pros

You can work on as many projects based on your interest. Most of the employees have ample time to complete a milestone which enables to concentrate on other stuff.

Cons

The compensation is less when compared with other companies. Also the perks and other benefits are also minimum. Freshers are not given an chance to choice their team.

Advice to Senior Management

Freshers must be informed before about the job role they would be posted and their preference whether they would like it or not . This is because shifting within teams in IBM is kind of difficult unless the manager is an understanding person.

Pros

Work life balance, Work from home flexibility, no manager harasssment

Cons

Incompetent Senior Management, Bad pay, faulty performance review parameters

Advice to Senior Management

The gap between competent Indian resources and incompetent western functional managers will make you lose Indian managers very fast.

Pros

The policies allow for a very flexible work culture. They insist on work completion within the stipulated time and with the expected (or more than expected) quality. The managers do not keep pounding you for an update every now and then and give enough freedom to perform your role as you deem fit.

Cons

The internal employee operations and administration process is very poor. If an employee has to raise something as simple as a reimbursement claim, there are a lot of pains he/she has to bear to eventually get the reimbursement. Another instance would be - no one seems to know how to apply for a VISA, even if it is as common as a US H1B petition. The employee has to run from pillar to post to find out what the procedure is and then implement it. These are some instances of bad back-end administration/operations for employee services.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a solid process and stick to it.

Pros

- Industry leader
- Workplace flexibility
- Competent Management

Cons

- Large teams with internal politics

Pros

- Provides lot of opportunities for learning
- Can get opportunity to work with many technical experts
- Very flexible work environment
- Opportunity to get to work with services, products and research groups
- Opportunity to work with a global workforce

Cons

- It' a big company and so competition is more
- Promotions may take a bit longer time
- Does not have an effective and efficient Performance management/Assessment system
- Services group employee attrition rate is high compared to product and research groups
- Good, talented, technical people cannot stay long with promotions in Services group unless they move into management

Advice to Senior Management

- Have a fair performance assessment
- In services group managers must focus on technical quality and not on quantity(headcount!)
- Have a thin layer of management in Services group to enable better operation and span of control

Pros

Excellent growth and work Opportunities
Great amount of Flexibility and trust
Employee's Work-life is very well balanced. WFH option
Reputation

Cons

Very little or null Salary Hikes in most of the year/cycle
Poor Bonus scheme
Manager driven/controlled decision making
Heavily process oriented

Advice to Senior Management

Good place to work for and to feel proud to be a part of. Excellent employee work-life balance. But once joined employees financial growth is very minute which need to be taken care of.

Pros

good & flexible , you can learn yourself alot

Cons

politics & seniours not ready to help

Advice to Senior Management

managers are stupid

Pros

Excellent work culture and friendly atmosphere

Cons

salary package , gifts and goodies , projects. Need to improve on the cafeteria facilities . Does not give much importance to freshers.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more challenging work to freshers , encourage the freshers. Give attractive gifts and goodies and also pay hike :) thats it.

Pros

Skills are recognized here and job is decided as per your skill sets. The training is given as per your developmental skill sets. Assessment is done as per process and it is transparent.

Cons

Some associates are loaded more than their capacity. This makes him unreachable for his teammates unreachable. His performance affects due to the policy.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work to maintain the standards. Help the employees to grow within the organization and make it the best workplace.