Laid Off After Decades
Laid Off After Decades
Decent benefits package.
I met some good people.
I was laid off after 20+ years working at IBM. The severance package was reduced from 6 months to 1 month just before I was laid off.
On my previous team, it took a very long time (over 6 months in some cases) for delivered code to be put in production.
Delivering code updates and fixes was a torturous process, requiring forms, more forms, and approval by multiple non-technical people, no matter how trivial the code change.
If you are going to claim to embrace Agile methodologies, actually do that, or shut up about it.
Don't lay off people with more experience, skills, and aptitude than people in the same position just to save money.
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I had an informal chat with the manager, followed by a quick and easy technical interview. They asked me some simple Java questions, and not knowing an answer did not impact my overall status. A very new employee conducted the interview.
Software Engineer
I was picked up at university and directly asked a few informal questions about previous job experience. That was all. I wasn't asked a lot, as I had interned at IBM before.
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I was contacted directly by the recruiter, and scheduling was very smooth. There were a total of three interview rounds. The whole process took about two weeks, which covered coding, algorithms, and behavioral standard questions. It was not hard.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesSeptember 1, 2014I had an informal chat with the manager, followed by a quick and easy technical interview. They asked me some simple Java questions, and not knowing an answer did not impact my overall status. A very new employee conducted the interview.
Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesNovember 1, 2014I was picked up at university and directly asked a few informal questions about previous job experience. That was all. I wasn't asked a lot, as I had interned at IBM before.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesAugust 1, 2016I was contacted directly by the recruiter, and scheduling was very smooth. There were a total of three interview rounds. The whole process took about two weeks, which covered coding, algorithms, and behavioral standard questions. It was not hard.
