A tough place to be working right now
A tough place to be working right now
IBM has some of the best people I've ever worked with. Great culture of integrity.
Management is really awful. The CEO does not appear to have a plan, and the company has seen declining revenues for 5 years. For the past 10 years, IBM management has been ruthlessly laying people off, particularly older employees. There is a deeply ingrained culture of fear here. It's not a happy place to work at all.
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There were two interviews on campus. A couple of weeks later, they sent me an email to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview was with a manager and a recruiter, and it took 30 minutes. During the phone interview, they asked mostly questi
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I had an initial phone screen. There were lots of technical questions, but I decided not to take the job.
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A couple of interviews were conducted with technical staff. The problem was that management indicated a move from a hybrid model to a full in-office policy. That wasn't going to fly when I was doing the same job for a competitor fully remote.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesMarch 7, 2015There were two interviews on campus. A couple of weeks later, they sent me an email to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview was with a manager and a recruiter, and it took 30 minutes. During the phone interview, they asked mostly questi
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Austin, Texas, United StatesJuly 1, 2008I had an initial phone screen. There were lots of technical questions, but I decided not to take the job.
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United StatesOctober 5, 2025A couple of interviews were conducted with technical staff. The problem was that management indicated a move from a hybrid model to a full in-office policy. That wasn't going to fly when I was doing the same job for a competitor fully remote.
