No salary hike. No promotions. Every steps towards your growth in ibm is a big joke in terms of salary. To say the least, theoretically a person can become manager by the time his salary reaches 4.5 - 5 lacs (in case you are a campus hire or your have been hired at a low salary due to some reason). Every HR mail related to salary is a big Mathematical game to fool you. IBM gives no hike to average raters and they give 3-6% hike to top raters (only 10% of IBMer, that means on an everage IBM gives a hike of 6/10=0.6%. You can easily understand how pathetic it is...