If you're thinking of joining IFS (Sri Lanka specifically), don't. - Software Engineer IFS Employee Review

1.0
7 Apr 2024
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Pros

Somewhat average work/life balance. Good culture among employees.

Cons

Increments and appraisals are getting worse and worse each year. But on the contrary, senior leadership and management brags about record profits, increased efficiency and mass recruitments in every single all-hands call. When it comes time for increments, suddenly they have no money. Increments were cut down drastically. Majority of employees (Sri Lanka specifically) received 5% ( ranging from $3 to $30) or less increment on salary. Company introduced a convoluted plan which added 50% of the already established allowance plan into base salary and cut down the allowance. They made this absurd plan to con the employees into thinking that salary is increased massively, saying things like "look, your EPF is now increased because of this, your bonus will increase next year because of this", while in reality, the actual increase of salary is around 5% (if you're lucky). The line managers have the audacity to defend the company and give excuses for them, saying this is a good increment. They quickly move away from feedback regarding increments saying they have done the best they can. This is at a time when IFS Sri Lanka salaries are already below current Sri Lanka industry standards by a massive margin. For this, the company gives the excuse of being a SLASSCOM company. They use this excuse to gain cheap labour from the country. Promotions are a just a pointless title change with no salary increase guaranteed. Even then, your salary will be far less than for an employee multiple tiers below you in other companies in the industry. Company pushes employee surveys every quarter, saying this is important to do, but almost all feedback is neglected. It is a pointless exercise that management constantly chases you to complete before deadlines. Company posts about achievements, partnerships and sponsorships every single day, but they treat their employees as the least important factor.

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5.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

Rapidly Advancing Technology and Approach Sales led, and driven organization Access to Leadership to address any issues Open to ideas and generally appreciates their Employees

Cons

Some internal processes need improvement to be more Customer responsive and move more quickly

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IFS Response
1mo
Such an insightful review, with clear advice and feedback to the business. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Good luck with your career at IFS. SS
5.0
15 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

As a sales rep at IFS, you have a unique opportunity to disrupt the ERP, EAM, FSM and AI market by providing robust industry specific capabilities across each of these solution areas on a single platform that addresses a lot of the critical pain points customers have today with legacy/traditional enterprise software providers. IFS invests deeply not just in their platform but also in brand and marketing. This creates a lot of exciting opportunities to be relevant to your customers and prospects (i.e. Big Ten sponsorship and F1 Cadillac sponsorship). This is a good time to be a sales rep at IFS.

Cons

My biggest complaint is the recent turnover in leadership in North America. Created a period of uncertainty but has since stabilized for the most part. IFS has grown fast over the last few years. This obviously comes with some growth pains. For example, limited presales resources. IFS also needs to work on newer customer references. IFS has typically relied on the same customer references which are strong but it would be powerful to see new customer references emerging from some of the newer larger customers IFS has acquired over the last few years.

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IFS Response
5mo
We love this! Thank you for sharing your perspective as someone who's been part of our growth journey over the past few years. Your enthusiasm about our platform capabilities and market position comes through clearly, and we appreciate your commitment to helping customers solve their critical challenges. Thank you for being part of Team Purple and for the honest insights that help us keep improving. CM
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