Company: IBM
Date: 2012-06-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Double standard
Pros: Global company, lot of learning materials, good client exposure
Cons: Adulterated policy for Indian operation; Performance review stringent for IBM India; Bands & subdivided to create india specific like.; below market salary; no tax saving instruments like food coupons, telephone reimbursement, attire reimbursement etc. fuel reimbursement not revised in last 10 years and is limited to 36000 per year; hand written bills from indian petrol bunks are often rejected for silly reasons like date not clear/ over written, hyphen put before nos etc. No list published what is medicine or not medicine but often medical bills are rejected saying                 non-medicinal item.

No approachable HR present in company; technical managers takes HR role leading to poor employee satisfaction; Most technical managers have second fiddle (like Monmohan - Sonia.

10 hours working with 1 hour lunch break & pays for 8 hours with a billing of 9 hours to client.

CTC is never paid; If you are above average in appraisal face cut on 20% on variable pay; average gets 50% cut & below average gets nothing.