Pros
- Work from home is the only pros I see. -
Cons
- I am working in IBM India Pvt Ltd -No salary hike. I have not been given salary hike since 3 years in a row. Most employees are in the same state or have been given hike of mere 1.2% in 2 years. - No promotion. I have not been promoted over the six years of my working span. - No Freedom for employees to do independent research on open source environment. - Senior management to lower management don't encourage lower employees for out of box research, learning open source tools and technology, instead would be stressing or forcing employees to take up only company related tools or product. Two examples of recent incident. One employee wanted to work on python and network security technology was discouraged by manager and he didn't get much help. With environment restrictions he could install open source tools to do research and practice yet he worked on his own system and did wonderful research and thus got his work published through outside publishing house. Seeing his work his managers now want him to cite his work and earn over his hard work. Totally unethical management. - Senior to lower management doesn't put any trust on the low level employees. Employees need to give business justification of each and every activity they do in the company. This includes at what time they received ticket including exact time stamp, when they worked on it, why delay etc. Employees need to maintain a track record of number of softwares they use through the use of excel sheet, software tools and web portals - employees need to keep track record of what training they have done manually and update their manager every quarter. - Too much of manual labor and clerical work - One one side company is transforming into cloud, analytics, mobile, watson and on the other side when employees want to learn and work in these technologies management puts a hurdle in the path in the name of process, no openings etc. - Most of the trainings recently are seen as self funded. At first managers and senior management encourage employees to take these trainings and when employees register for these trainings they are told that they have to arrange for their travel, accomodation in total its self funded. Management gives excuse of shortage of funds. - In my six years of experience never had a chance to meet a visionary in the company. Things are not transparent in the hierarchichal order. When asked to managers about reason behind particular step/ policy of the company most of them have no clues why they were asked to carry forward such orders. Most of the managers are really stupid and don't even posses the basics of mathematics, policies implementations, long term goal definition and vision. - Recently seen lot of violation of govt norms and regulations. I independently carried out a survey in the company and also reached the environmental group to enquire about the disposal policy of the electronics in the company but received a warning from the management. - Big time culprits. No respect for human rights. - Don't give any respect to basic human needs such as leaves. When an employee applies for leaves he has to seek approval from many people along with citing the reason why he needs leaves now and he can't be given leaves that too many. From leave to other approval process the company's functions have mirrored the working of an government organization. Too much processes has induced red tapism. - promotion process has been designed to further delay the process thus saving the company from lot of bucks. -Internal Projects are the worst managed. - management put more stress, effort and brain in developing stupid ideas and tools which are useless such as ticket metrics which needs to be filled by employees in their respective projects with exact date and timestamp of the work they did. - Employees have to bear the brunt if something goes wrong with too much sermon and speeches. - In most projects managers attitude is really frustrating and pathetic. In one of the projects the managers message to new joinee- "They are gods( internal project client -ibmers only) and they give us our salary so whatever they say we have to do. If you want to fear anybody you should fear them." This statement clearly shows that most of the managers have lost their self-respect in the wake of recent transformation and fear their jobs being lost.
