Bear with me please... From what I understand, IBM has a semi-regular promotion schedule. I was under the impression that notifications begin in Q2 and come into effect in Q3. Is this the case?
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@pxf nails it
I worked as a band 7 for 9 years - came to ibm through outsource of it for state of georgia account I was always a 2+ Never ever a 3. And none on our team ever made 1 aka top score. I always got 2 % raises or so always got GDP bonus except for 1 year the was froze contract wide for all of out group in gts. This year - jan I received my pic score and great job call from my boss gating on how much he valued my work how much I was a team player how well I did my job and how valuable I was - 2 weeks later I received my 2% in my check. A week or so agree that got a call hey great job. We have some GDP money to pass to you. Gave me a 650 thank you GDP bonus. For work we did and how great we wer doing. March 2. The uhh ohh. Call, your on the ra list I'm so sorry this has happened call it accounting budgeting and you don't live in columbia miss. And are a work from home worker. You got 90 days. And your job will be deleted. As you read above. I jumped up and started looking as soon as I hung up the phone. Wasn't much of a surprise since I seen our team drop substantially year after year. I already had my resignation speech composed. And updated my resume. Thurs and Friday after march 2 black Wednesday. I had calls within a few days with interest. IBM on the resume looks great and other companies respect it for now. Till the real story comes out about this evil company and no employer loyalty at all. Find something else and smile on your ride to your new job. I was nervous at first but super glad im off the IBM highway and not worrying daily when same time pops. Is he calling me today
It's not quite as structured as the first reply indicates (based on my 20+ years of IBM management experience).
First to answer your question -- yes, the promo cycle is typically done in conjunction with the annual salary plan cycle/process. There are always exceptions, but this is the norm.
Second, promotions are based on business need first -- eg, do I have an open requirement for a band X hardware engineer. If yes, than who is qualified? Could be existing band x employees from other areas or promotable band x-1 employees on my existing team.
There is no set schedule for an individual employee receiving a promotion.
Depends on your band and location. All these statements are for the US.
For US Engineers generally you don't get promoted to the next band till you've been in band for at least 2-3 years. If you get promoted more frequently than that it's because you were either ludicrously under-hired or you are getting cashless promotions which are actually a bad thing. If you get a cashless promotion basically you will never get enough raises to be fairly paid for the new work you're doing.
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band 6->7 happens at your managers discretion and you don't find out till everyone else does in the team meeting.
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band 7->8 happens after your manager convinces his peers you're worth it, and you probably have hints your manager is attempting to do this because you will be pestered for what awesome stuff you've done to justify it over and over again for several months.
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band 8->9 happens when you've been working as a 9 for years already and are the go to person for a whole bunch of stuff for your entire 3rd line org ( ~ 1000 people ? ) You actually have to write your own package for 9 ( in systems anyway ) which is a fifteen page report on why you're awesome and how much more awesome you will be as an official 9.