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Awesome place to work for interns!

DB2 Quality Assurance
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
March 30, 2014
Markham, Ontario
5.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Can work from home (depends if your manager allows it).
  • Smart people everywhere; you can ask questions and they will help you out.
  • Awesome manager who will acknowledge your work if you let them by working hard and doing your best.
  • Great salary (I was paid $22.05/hr), whereas you will not get that much paid anywhere else.
  • The job was awesome too, and I enjoyed every bit of it. I felt like going to work every single day and was the happiest person ever.
Cons
  • Students are not respected at all, and they're seen as if they can take on burden after burden of work.
  • Some irrelevant work is given too, like filling out forms and charts.
  • Some people get annoyed pretty easily over a student's mistake (i.e., the managers at the top of the chain).
  • If you don't impress your manager from the beginning, your manager will never like you.
  • No benefits (but hey, it's not like you get benefits elsewhere either).
  • Can't take vacation.
Advice to Management

Recognize that students have potential.

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