Company: IBM
Date: 2017-06-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Not good for long term
Pros: - Good starting salary compared for fresh graduates
- Great salary for experienced hires
- 14th Month Pay
- HMO
- Work from home ( depends on team/project you belong).
Cons: - Slow career progression especially for fresh graduates. Your promotions lies on the hands of your people manager (even if you are really good and hard working, don't expect much that your efforts will be appreciated through promotion). Too much politics.
- No OT pay
- Work is mostly on production support (not for employees seeking development/programming tasks)
- You will be required to work on holidays (most if not all PH holidays); you can take Compensated day off after, or claim meal & transpo allowance which sums to amount much lower than your daily rate.
- you will have to make up for your leaves (SL,VL,Emergency leave, & Compensated Day offs) which means you actually have no SL,VL, & EL as stated in your contract. This is due to the utilization (targeting 97.8% - 100%+ utilization ; meaning you will need to work 40hrs/week for the whole year)
- Not recommended for talented resources to stay for long term, unless you plan to become manager ( but you need to know/befriend someone from upper management to propel your promotions)
- Overworked & underpaid (salary is not proportional to workload --> especially for GH who are not promoted on timely manner). Not recommended for Gradhires to stay in IBM for more than 2 - 3 years, else you will be given tasks usually done by experienced resources but for a very bargain price/salary.
- Yearly performance bonus -- also lies on the hands of the People/Project Manager. Your bonus will depend on how fair your People/Project manager's judgement is when comparing your performance with your team mates.