Slow advancement, but flexible environment and good benefits
Slow advancement, but flexible environment and good benefits
IBM has been around forever, so it's very possible to work there for 20 or more years. Their benefits package has historically been very good. They have also made steps toward adopting a more flexible and casual work environment. Work-from-home flexibility is increasingly common.
Slow advancement. Mediocre salary. The upper technical ranks are clogged with old-school engineers that have little exposure to modern innovations or methodologies.
This leaves little room for new, exceptional talent to innovate, create fresh product value, or bring new offerings to the marketplace.
IBM will fail to keep pace with younger, more agile companies that are able to bring innovative and more easily adopted solutions to market if it continues to grant such deference to its antiquated senior technical staff. Unless IBM finds a way to accelerate the careers and influence of talent with more modern approaches to problem solving and engineering in general, IBM will increasingly be seen as a relic of a bygone era.
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After sending my resume, it took one month before I heard back for a telephone interview. Another three weeks later, there were two rounds of technical interviews before I received the job offer.
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It was a long, drawn-out process. First, they call and set up an interview. Then you speak to five members of the team and the manager. After that, they let you know. It took 10 days before I heard back from them. A day later and I would have gone f
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I was working as a contractor previously, so there was no formal interview conducted when I converted to a regular position. For the contractor position, I spoke with a few software engineers and one to two researchers, and I wasn't asked too many di
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Portland, Oregon, United StatesDecember 1, 2011After sending my resume, it took one month before I heard back for a telephone interview. Another three weeks later, there were two rounds of technical interviews before I received the job offer.
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Buffalo, New York, United StatesAugust 1, 2012It was a long, drawn-out process. First, they call and set up an interview. Then you speak to five members of the team and the manager. After that, they let you know. It took 10 days before I heard back from them. A day later and I would have gone f
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United StatesDecember 2, 2013I was working as a contractor previously, so there was no formal interview conducted when I converted to a regular position. For the contractor position, I spoke with a few software engineers and one to two researchers, and I wasn't asked too many di
