IBM

Very flexible working hours.

Good work-life balance.

Good brand name.

Good maternity and paternity leave policy.

Good medical leave policy.

Great infrastructure support for work from home.

Not much focus on employee development and training.

Ambiguous and long process for everything.

Poor increment/hikes.

Slow growth.

No feedback/suggestion process to higher management.

Very illogical high management decisions for cost saving were taken some 8 years back in Indian offices.

One of them was no free tea/coffee/milk in offices.

This was a very cheap measure. Even a C-listed (IBM being A-listed) company provides free tea/coffee in India.

Another was wasting money on a "go green" initiative and not doing anything on the ground level. It really annoyed me.

They used paper cups, paper receipts, and paper ads. Whereas most of the green companies in India use reusable cups or issue personal cups to employees and moved to e-receipts long ago.

I was really impressed by the "go green" measures of my employers before IBM. You should really learn from your competitors or else stop wasting money on ads.

Simplify your training and certification process.

In many projects, trainings are considered a waste of time. And there is no focus on soft skill training, which most employees highly require.

See your competitor companies: Accenture, Infosys, SAP. All are focused on employee training, and it's part of their KPI.

All in all, I didn't see the company investing in its employees' growth. So, in turn, you lose employee interest.

If you are not giving hikes at par with your competitors, at least take some measures to keep employees' interest in your company.