It's a sinking ship - Lead II Infrastructure specialist Kyndryl Employee Review

2.0
Jun 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Life Balance is good in this company. Hybrid work model, with 2 days Work from Home per week.

Cons

Very slow growth. Once you are in this company, don't expect much hike in salary or even promotions. The company is losing all its businesses. They are continuing with the accounts from IBM days, and unable to renew any profitable contracts. Company has downsized a lot over past couple of years. When Kyndryl was set up it used to have 90K+ employees, at present in 2025 it has around 74K. Kyndryl has accounts only in Bangalore location. All the other locations are just there for the mere sake of existence, with no good or very few accounts. You could end up reporting to 2 managers. 1st is people manager (not sure why this role is needed) for approving leaves, and doing your appraisals without knowing anything about the work that you do. 2nd is you functional manager, who looks after the delivery of your account. Just to get a single leave approved, you might need 3 levels of approval (Client Manage-->Functional Manager-->People Manager) It is an over-processed organization, so you might feel that things are moving very slowly, when HR or finance related issues are raised. Talking about HR, they are non-existent in Kyndryl, you will always be redirected to a chatbot, giving weird answers.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefit, Paid Leave, Growth opportunity.

Cons

Job opening limited in may other fields.

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work, vacation, coworkers are usually pretty chill, 3 months on the bench to look for a new job before you're laid off

Cons

10-11K planned to be laid off this year and they aren't going after the worst performers, they're just cutting out whatever section looks good in excel. Poor profitability. Constant reorgs. Say they're a flat organization but keep getting more and more vertical. the last manager I got transferred to took months to have a meeting with my group and when he did, it was only to let us know we were getting cut, never-mind that we had a presentation on how to save a couple million on a type of software license that the company had to have to do business. They still use a stacked ranking for employee review, so if your whole team had an outstanding year and surpassed every goal, only 5-10% will be graded as outstanding and 10-15% will get expects more. Even when I got into that 5-10% exceeds, the raise for that year was still only 2%. One year I got a promotion from band 4 to 5, still only a 2% raise. Your pay will be as flat as a plains state. After 15+ years in this company, it feels like leaving an abusive relationship. Yes, it's not all bad, but you have to recognize that it still wasn't good for you.

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