Great projects, poor management
Great projects, poor management
Being able to say that you work for IBM! There is a lot of prestige in working for such a big and popular company. The salaries are excellent, and the projects you get to work on are usually really cool.
It is very cliquey there. If you stick out in any way, good or bad, you are usually ostracized from most of your teammates. Management does a very poor job promoting cross-team teamwork. If someone has information that you need, 9 times out of 10, they will not want to share it with you for fear of competition for their job.
Think more about your employees than just their rank and serial number in order to get a better performance out of them. If they ask for help, give it to them rather than tell them to figure it out themselves, especially if the person who you need to work with does not want to cooperate and their manager does nothing to help the problem.
Oh, and to the very high-ups, like the senior VPs and CEO, how about taking a few million dollars less in bonuses and saving some people's jobs? In this economy, people work a lot harder to keep their jobs, and I am sure that you will be viewed as heroes instead of the heels we think you are now.
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It mainly consists of 2-3 rounds, depending on project needs. 2 technical rounds + 1 HR round, followed by client rounds. The interview revolves around topics on Spark, SQL, Big Data, and cloud services like GCP (BigQuery, Airflow, Dataproc), along
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It was easy, compared to other tech company interviews. There were no algorithms or stuff like that, only general questions about web development or data science. You should be fine if you know terms from the field; it's nothing otherworldly.
Data Engineer Cloud Specialist
Gurgaon, Haryana, IndiaJuly 1, 2025It mainly consists of 2-3 rounds, depending on project needs. 2 technical rounds + 1 HR round, followed by client rounds. The interview revolves around topics on Spark, SQL, Big Data, and cloud services like GCP (BigQuery, Airflow, Dataproc), along
Applications Developer
IndiaFebruary 23, 2019Depends on the tool. The interview process consists of a first technical round and an HR round. It's a straightforward process. Overall, the interview process was good and helpful for me, as it was the first interview I faced after many years.
Software Engineer
MexicoJuly 1, 2023It was easy, compared to other tech company interviews. There were no algorithms or stuff like that, only general questions about web development or data science. You should be fine if you know terms from the field; it's nothing otherworldly.
