IBM is very flexible, and there are a broad range of jobs to choose from if you are willing to raise your hand. Most of the successful people jump jobs every 2-3 years. The hours are flexible, and you can get a lot of jobs where you can work almost exclusively from home. If you are a solid developer, you probably won't have to work too hard to stay ahead, so you won't be putting in tons of overtime.
This company loves process more than any other place. They care about making sure they are up to ISO rules more than getting out a quality product to the customer. This leads to their strategy of buying up innovative companies, sucking their customers dry, and then moving their products to Asia/Pacific for maintenance. Oh, and even if the stock is doing great and profits are up, the Senior Management makes sure that your division will miss one metric so they can give you little to no raise and a small bonus.
You all need to look past your own stock options and the quarter-to-quarter trickery for the shareholders and look at the 20-year plan of this company. Right now, with all the acquisitions, it is getting impossibly large.
The interview process at IBM was very straightforward. A couple of rounds involved simple "standard" interview questions. I was asked a few behavioral questions, and then eventually, some technical questions with members of the technical team. The
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 spoke with three different "recruiters," and they rescheduled my Guide interview three times. Sometimes, this rescheduling occurred only hours before the interview was supposed to take place. Since I already had an offer from elsewhere, I canceled
The interview process at IBM was very straightforward. A couple of rounds involved simple "standard" interview questions. I was asked a few behavioral questions, and then eventually, some technical questions with members of the technical team. The
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 spoke with three different "recruiters," and they rescheduled my Guide interview three times. Sometimes, this rescheduling occurred only hours before the interview was supposed to take place. Since I already had an offer from elsewhere, I canceled