Company: IBM
Date: 2019-10-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Your experience depends completely on your managers
Pros: 1. Very very good work-life balance
2. Flexible work hour (Depends on Manager, but no clocking dependency)
3. Freedom to grow as per your wish and skill within the organization (It's standard company policy, but still you are completely dependent on your manager, I have not got any chance like this, but some people got it)
4. So many contents available for learning, wide area available for self-learning
5. For women, some extra advantages and benefits are there.
6.  The company values and policies are very good, but you need approval from your manager.
7. I found very very standard values set by the organization, but still, I didn't see my manager is following those.
Cons: 1. Some managers became manager just because of their experience, they don't have any such knowledge for what they are claiming, IBM is so flexible that they don't even consider these managers attitude.
2. I found such a stupid manager who is very very insecure about his team, he doesn't even believe his team, there's no priority of you. He won't allow you to join another available location for the same project under him only, because he is so insecure, where INTEGRITY and TRANSPARENCY our company values.
3. Work From Home is a myth here.
4. As per IBM policy, I am working in 2nd shift, but management won't allow you to claim it, that is fine sometimes. 
5. Here inside IBM, inside your project, you will see so many internal teams and policy exist like other companies. 
6. Very less hike, your performance, the effort simply doesn't matter. Only matters that is how much your manager is getting for the whole team to distribute and based on the project to project.
7. For the Chennai location, you won't find any spirit or active people.
8. If you have a team in another location, then you will able to see the kind of attitude and partiality between locations, that's horrible.

   --- It may look like I am frustrated about IBM, but it's not my intention to express it here. I am not happy with my manager's attitude. 
Not good for freshers to start carrier, as you won't be able to fight for your survival if you get a leader like this.