In my experience, the corporate policy on ethics is followed and beneficial in many aspects to employees. A lot of experienced coworkers are very helpful, and there is usually no problem getting help from other IBM sites. As a software engineer, which is not very often in contact with clients, I'm not required to wear formal clothing, which is actually great.
Salaries are not updated in line with inflation, and raises need an outstanding PBC (annual evaluation). This is very difficult since raises are mostly limited to a percentage by policy.
To value employees more, shareholders may switch sides only for convenience, while many employees are very loyal.
The process involves 2 or 3 interviews and 1 technical exam, which is very long. It began with a technical exam covering many technologies and programming languages. This was followed by an interview with the manager and two more interviews focused
1. Phone interview to learn about yourself. 2. Technical questions covering: - DB2 Administration (backup strategies, performance and tuning, load). - Shell development (Linux commands like awk, grep, sed). - Unix/Linux system commands (use
It was a very quick and simple process. They gave me a basic and simple logic exercise in the language I felt most comfortable with, and I did it in C.
The process involves 2 or 3 interviews and 1 technical exam, which is very long. It began with a technical exam covering many technologies and programming languages. This was followed by an interview with the manager and two more interviews focused
1. Phone interview to learn about yourself. 2. Technical questions covering: - DB2 Administration (backup strategies, performance and tuning, load). - Shell development (Linux commands like awk, grep, sed). - Unix/Linux system commands (use
It was a very quick and simple process. They gave me a basic and simple logic exercise in the language I felt most comfortable with, and I did it in C.