Company: IBM
Date: 2015-07-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

IBM Philippines Graduate Hire - Advance Programming Specialist
Pros: - Good training.
- BIG FISH company
Cons: - A very low wage.
- growth level at its lowest
- Often times, the training that you are specializing from them has no relationship to the project you will work to.
- Often times, a project candidate is measured by random system generator meaning it's not measured based on talents.
- There are no overtime pays even though counterparts wants you to work overtime
- Promotion when you last 1 year in the project, but if you're rolled off from the project ( even though the project is just cost-cutting or have minor reasons) the time gap for your promotion will be reset. It means if you are rolled off in the project after 364 or less days, then the promotion duration will be reset.
- Vacation leaves are earned. You cannot have leaves probably on January-March because you have to earn it first.
- Holiday offsets is a joke. Because first you have to use it within the next quarter otherwise it would be a waste. Second, if you have many holiday offsets, you cannot use it within the next quarter because there are some project requirements that you have to complete a minimum working hours per week or per quarter so for example, you have to work 40 hrs/week - 8hrs per day, then you had 1 Holiday Vacation Leave on that week, so you have to work 10hrs/day on that week just to cope up your vacation leave which is very FRUSTRATING.