1) IBM ISL Kochi is a Hire and Fire Company. They took many floor and hiring many people in Kochi. When we look at the Firing count it is same as hiring count in each year.
2) IBM culture is based on a Manager game. For all other location a technical person become as manager. Unfortunately in Kochi almost every manager is non technical and they will not take any challenging work which make visibility because they dont know about that and if he took that work it is manager responsibility to complete on time. IBM wants visibility on works and team. As manager is the master he is not looking back and just fire some people from his/her team and prove that they are not performing and that is the reason the team is not inventing some new features. Everybody knows the exact reason by it is happening from bottom to top and now it become as IBM Culture.
3) Every half year there is a performance appraisal and put some people to PIP. Here PIP means terminating employees, I never seen any performance improvement plan provided to them instead the company ask them to resign otherwise will terminate you. Due to termination complication most of the employees agrees to resign but getting another job is very difficult as IBM provide high CTC.
4) If you are okay with two year Job in IBM with high salary then it is good. But please dont go to a different skill set in IBM. Because IBM ISL Kochi will fire you within 2 year and that time you will struggle to get another job.
