Hardware business increasingly being marginalized by higher-margin services
Hardware business increasingly being marginalized by higher-margin services
IBM still has some of the world's best engineers, and we have access to cutting-edge technology.
Work-life balance is excellent. Compensation is decent.
Our new CEO, Virginia Rometty, seems to have no vision for the future of the company. She's a manager, not a leader.
The semiconductor business, where I work, is increasingly being pushed aside in favor of IBM's higher-margin services business, which is itself increasingly moving to India.
Working in semiconductors has become mostly an exercise in cost-control rather than innovation.
If you're serious about being a technology leader, you need to invest in the resources to make it happen. If not, then just go ahead and sell the Systems and Technology Group to another company before all the good engineers leave.
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Interviewed with managers and engineers in and out of the team. People are really nice there. Friendly working environment. Interviews are relatively short (30 minutes per interview). Waited for a month and still pending results.
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The interview process consisted of three rounds: * HR round: Covered basic questions such as your strengths/weaknesses and how you work in a team environment. * Skills test: Assessed coding skills and included an algorithmic question. * Stress
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New York, New York, United StatesSeptember 30, 2017Interviewed with managers and engineers in and out of the team. People are really nice there. Friendly working environment. Interviews are relatively short (30 minutes per interview). Waited for a month and still pending results.
Software Engineer
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaMarch 1, 2012The interview process consisted of three rounds: * HR round: Covered basic questions such as your strengths/weaknesses and how you work in a team environment. * Skills test: Assessed coding skills and included an algorithmic question. * Stress
