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Overall Good Company, Some Cleanup Needed

Senior Technical Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
March 4, 2018
Calcutta, West Bengal
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Very good employer. Good work-life balance. Immense scope for learning new technologies. Pretty open-door culture. People respect each other. Clients behave well because of the brand value.

Cons

Very average package. Manager's company, a redundant, non-functioning management layer doing PMO-level jobs without any relevant contribution. While training gives a large insight into newer emerging technologies, there aren't enough projects to utilize those skills. Once you change projects, all your contributions are drained down, and you start from scratch on a new project. No credibility is carried over. The rating system has no sync with increments/promotions. Promotions are largely document-based, not performance-based. Innovative initiatives are spreadsheet fillers for managers; real idea generators are not valued.

Advice to Management

None, they know what to clean up. The only thing they should know is that the disruptive thoughts and the missions on emerging technologies they have adopted are not taken seriously by the lower management layers. They just want to sit tight and somehow spend their time here.

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