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IBM India Pvt Ltd, Kolkata

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
September 30, 2010
Calcutta, India
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros
  1. Opportunity to work on various technologies and domains.
  2. Access to a lot of products and tools (IBM owns them ;-)).
  3. Access to a lot of intellectual property (learning materials).
  4. Good company to start your career.
  5. Onsite opportunities if you are lucky and patient.
  6. Good rewards and recognition policy.
  7. Work environment is fine.
  8. Mature company with well-established processes.
Cons
  1. Pay package is not competitive.
  2. Benefits are negligible and decreasing day by day as the headcount is increasing.
  3. Annual raise in salary is minimum.
  4. Bonus is hardly noticeable.
  5. Career growth may get stagnated if one gets stuck in long-term projects.
  6. Work culture may become laid-back with time.
  7. Cafeteria food sucks!
Advice to Management
  1. Value quality and not quantity.
  2. Try to retain good resources.
  3. Improve the competence of senior management as it used to be 7 years back.

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