Company: IBM
Date: 2016-04-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Staff Software Engineer, Bangalore
Pros: Nothing much. If you want government job kind of work, you can try this option.
Cons: There is no benefits in IBM India software labs especially when you are put into acquired product companies like Curam. Purely, it is double standards here. Full regional and gang based politics. No vision. working on same old stuff and trying to reinvent the same wheel. No innovation or atleast adding some dirt in the name of innovation. It was tussle between Curam vs IBM and each would harass either of them. One of my worst project in my career. Now, they are moving to health care to revolutionize it and am really not sure whats going to happen. They made lots of bad noise in Health Care reform projects. Counter parts in Dublin and US are far better in terms of knowledge and technical ability. Promotions are determined by your labour work and not smartness. Just work for long hours and make seniors feel you work hard and you will be considered. Basically, they are tailoring the IBM golden standards to the people available there. I heard lot of great talents about yesteryear IBM folks but it has reduced to level of dust here. I was informed you need additional caliber like inventions and publication to go to higher band but what happened is different. People slogging long hours and doing stereotypical/routine work are elevated. Ache din aane wale..