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Great experience within the team I was placed in

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 1 year
May 12, 2019
San Francisco, California
5.0
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Pros

If placed on a good team, as an intern you'll get exposure to very interesting work that will help you build a great start to your career. You will get exposure to projects and team members with lots of experience and challenges.

IBM's intern program has gotten much better, and you'll have exposure to internal hackathons and a global event where you'll go to either Austin or Raleigh and meet other interns to talk about your project.

Cons

If you're not so lucky, you will be working on maintaining legacy products of acquired technology companies that are being suppressed by the company's infamous bureaucracy.

The way they pay interns is also based on the number of credits. So, I recommend counting credits from your AP courses and such that you have gotten from high school.

If you're an individual with lots of experience interning straight from high school, you'll learn a lot but get paid nothing. They need to change this pay structure.

Advice to Management

None, my team was great!

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