Company: IBM
Date: 2014-03-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

IBM Pakistan: No Job Security; Extremely Poor Employer!!!
Pros: Just a strong Brand Name worldwide but “All that glitters is not gold" (Oonchi dukan pheeka pakwan)”
Cons: 1) No Job Security: 
The No.1 rapidly raising and biggest con is "No job Security" at IBM GBS Pakistan. They just hire resources on project basis on 3rd party contracts, promise them to convert them to either FTCs or regular in future but instead FIRE them on project completion, even employees working for more than 5 to 7 years. They say in meetings and conferences that IBM is hiring xxx number of resources and has blah blah blah plans for the future, but the reality inside is entirely different and IBM has no plans to even retain their existing employees.

2) No timely increments/ promotions/ benefits/ allowances: 
Yearly increments and promotions are promised at the time of hiring but no timely increments, even employees get no raise and forced to work for longer hours on same low salaries for years or either just LEAVE. Even a few benefits/ allowances given in previous years have now been seized/ withdrawn. The justification provided is profits aside, IBM GBS has no new business.

3) Below average and Low pay packages as compared to industry. People are rapidly leaving IBM Pak and joining competitors or other firms.  

4) No opportunities within IBM even if you have the required skill set to perform in other roles. Even if requested for a better opportunity within, the responses by bosses are extremely discouraging. Whenever you try to move up the career ladder, you will be bitten by a snake up there. 

5) Extremely Disrespectful and non-cooperative bosses, no career counseling or periodic meetings as promised at the time of hiring resources. Even after several weeks of repeated requests and follow-ups just for a few minutes meeting with your peoples manager, the response mostly is a Big 'NO'.

6) IBM GBS was performing very well in the past few years but doesn't have any business in Pakistan in recent years and is rapidly losing both name & business to other even much smaller local companies due to high price bids on projects and poor sales/ followup.