Company: IBM
Date: 2021-05-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

IBM India is a good place to work if you are consistent.
Pros: Overall healthy environment. Focus on your work, keep publishing articles, papers, assets... keep yourself visible. So many opportunities to learn and grow.

"Great place to work for women" (in quotes...). Policies and culture are very sensitive towards women's safety.
Cons: Few points:
* Very easy to get in the comfort zone. There are fix formulas to survive in IBM, and they keep changing with time. Complete projects with 'n' rating, publish 'n' articles/assets/papers and you are good till next KRA. On the face, this looks fair, but this is manipulated with 'visibility'. Visibility in IBM is like SEO (search engine optimization). And there are non-organic ways to increase your visibility. I'm not suggesting that this is the fault of IBM, this is just humans being human (or desis). 

* Growth is slow in general unless you have great visibility. 

* Organization has no face. You can work in IBM for years and years and never meet your manager, or somebody from accounts, HR, etc. . Everything happens via systems, which work like a well-oiled machine. But without faces it gets uninspiring. Nobody is there to push you to grow, to learn further, to actually innovate. So if you are not self-driven... you find yourself either in your comfort zone or in survival mode.

So find a mentor and few close friends near your cubicle (or in your Zoom call list), regardless of their role, competency, or color (of the project... Green/Yellow/Red, etc. )