Large Company, Unfair Ratings
Large Company, Unfair Ratings
IBM is a large company with many types of software projects.
Employee review rating percentage is dictated from above to manage head count. This is an unfair process. Sometimes managers are forced to give good engineers a poor review rating number just to manage head count.
Change the review process.
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Advisory Software Engineer
Phone call interview with HR, followed by interviews with engineers and the manager.
Advisory Software Engineer
Very slow. There were about four months between my application and offer acceptance, and it was over five months before I started. Hiring is largely outsourced to India. Interviews were over the phone, along with a half-day round of interviews on-s
Advisory Software Engineer
Received a phone call to introduce the background and some project-related information. On-site, there were three face-to-face interviews: * Two technical group interviews * One 1:1 management personality interview. Received the offer after three
Advisory Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesJune 1, 2010Phone call interview with HR, followed by interviews with engineers and the manager.
Advisory Software Engineer
United StatesApril 12, 2016Very slow. There were about four months between my application and offer acceptance, and it was over five months before I started. Hiring is largely outsourced to India. Interviews were over the phone, along with a half-day round of interviews on-s
Advisory Software Engineer
Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaAugust 1, 2013Received a phone call to introduce the background and some project-related information. On-site, there were three face-to-face interviews: * Two technical group interviews * One 1:1 management personality interview. Received the offer after three
