Company: IBM
Date: 2016-10-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not as glamorous as it appears to be
Pros: - Multicultural Exposure
- Agile culture is being pushed for execution
- Lots of learning modules available 
- Employees are well informed of the company's strategic plans and business stature
- Travel opportunities
- Decent medical coverage for the employees
- Has a venue for anonymous reporting of anomalies, red tapes, work ethic concerns
- Robust audit controls are in place
Cons: - Not a lot of benefits in place, at least for those who were hired post 2014
- No leave encashment for those who were hired 2014 and beyond, a lot of leave credits are just forfeited by end of the year
- Long vacation leaves are highly discouraged
- Red tapes from top management team
- Sets very high standards to the point that some managers are manipulating data or forced to bypass employee welfare or will choose not to care at all
- Cutting of reporting layers and widening of span of control did not consider that managers will lack time to develop people, rather will focus more on administrative work
- Too many redundant center-related deliverables which  impact the time spent to cater operational responsibilities and commited team performance to the client, worst, work and life balance
- If your salary is already on maximum pay range, despite performing and contributing significantly, you will not get any raise
- Management is reactive to employee issues (they offer money, promotion, promises, etc) and doesn't really strategically plan on their employees' career building and long term employment