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Great company, good work-life balance

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for 6 years
January 17, 2016
Bengaluru, Karnataka
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  1. Good and challenging job opportunities if you are willing to search and go get them.

  2. Great work-life balance. You can define to what extent you want to stretch. There are opportunities where you can work 9-5 and there are also opportunities where you can take on fast-paced business needs.

  3. Extremely supportive colleagues and managers who stand by you during tough personal situations.

  4. Talented, warm, friendly, and helpful colleagues.

  5. No/very little politics.

  6. All in all, a very progressive work culture.

Cons
  1. Average and sometimes low compensation. Hikes are below average.
  2. Growth is slow.
  3. PBC system, which caused a lot of friction and low morale, especially in a team where all team members are above average. Hence, rating any of them as average is not reasonable. This, I heard, is changing for good.
Advice to Management
  1. Retain talented employees by giving timely and competitive hikes.
  2. Define better growth opportunities.
  3. Do away with PBC and bell curve.
  4. And please keep the excellent culture of no politics as it is :)

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