Company: IBM
Date: 2019-06-13
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Review for IBM
Pros: 1. No issues with holidays or Work from home.
2. Having vacation is sometimes encouraged, if possible in your profile
3. Manager driven, hence no need to approach higher management every-time you need something done.
4. Appraisals and increments are based on internal assessments, hence fair enough.
5. Very ethical and great work environment, lots of opportunities to grow.
Cons: 1. You should be lucky enough to get good manager
2. Internal movements are not easy, existing manager does not let you go in the fear that they will have to hire another.
3. They mould the passing criteria of Internal assessments as per their choice, sometimes it is 60%, other times it is 75-80%, depending on how much workforce they want to keep or they want to let go.
4. Managers do have the right to cancel the holidays given the workforce and circumstances, but this is mis-used by most of the managers nearly all of the time.
5. General bias towards Men, preference towards women, since most of the Managers fear women might complain against them and ruin their career, hence male workforce is easily motivated towards more share of work, by the managers.