Excellent salary, good benefits, smart people. If you do a good job and are willing to give a good part of your life to helping the company, they will compensate very well.
They are increasingly treating their employees like 'tools' instead of humans.
Respect for the individual used to be a core principle from founder Tom Watson, but they have strayed from that over the years.
Focus more on people management.
I got my first interview after one month of applying (I did a coding assessment in between). I had three interviews in total. The first round was one hour long with two of my managers. They didn't specifically ask me about coding questions, but the
Two phone interviews, about 45 minutes each, followed by an onsite that was more of a "meet the team and make sure you aren't a weirdo" than a technical onsite. Overall, it was pretty easy.
This was a very simple interview process. There was a personal interview and two one-on-one technical interviews. The basics were asked, as it was an entry-level job.
I got my first interview after one month of applying (I did a coding assessment in between). I had three interviews in total. The first round was one hour long with two of my managers. They didn't specifically ask me about coding questions, but the
Two phone interviews, about 45 minutes each, followed by an onsite that was more of a "meet the team and make sure you aren't a weirdo" than a technical onsite. Overall, it was pretty easy.
This was a very simple interview process. There was a personal interview and two one-on-one technical interviews. The basics were asked, as it was an entry-level job.