IBM

It's a big, recognized company which will offer many opportunities. Not inside the firm because they do not hire, but after for your job search. If you are lucky enough to be in a good department, like the marketing department, you will have some benefits such as:

• The possibility to work at home from time to time; you get a laptop which you can carry everywhere.
• Having flexible working hours: no one will stare at you or make a not-funny joke about the time you arrive or leave at your workplace. As long as your job is well done, nothing else matters.

Like I said before, the people you work with are the key. I have an amazing team. They trust me and my work, and I have responsibilities, interesting projects, and I learn a lot.

Like every big company, they have processes, too many.

I heard it was one of the worst. It is really boring to follow every step, to have to fill tools with information, to get approval for every € spent.

There is also a lack of creativity. We do every the same kind of event and activity because of all the processes. We don't have enough time to create. And we work a lot with agencies which are here to deliver creativity.

They do not hire even if you succeed by being the best of your open space. No way.

When you arrive, you really have to be proactive. Work doesn't come by itself; you must look for it, ask for it.

My experience is great, as I said, but many of my fellows are disappointed. They do nothing or uninteresting tasks like Excel files; they are really bored.

As an apprentice, we are really not paid well: €1100...

I am really well managed; everything was explained to me when I arrived and after.

But it's so not the case for the other trainees or apprentices. They are quite alone. They have someone appointed to manage them, but they often don't have time to care about the new ones.

They really should be aware of where the needs are in order to not waste an apprentice/trainee.