The company is struggling; hope is fading
The company is struggling; hope is fading
There are a lot of smart people, and the pay is good. Many very large companies absolutely need IBM in order for them to continue operations.
Despite years of trying to reinvent IBM, the company has not been reinvented.
Too many people know how to "play the game": avoid making measurable commitments, always have an excuse for missed delivery or quality problems, fly under the radar, and keep collecting paychecks.
Be as hard on your product development teams as you are on your sales teams. IBM has not released a successful new product and taken it to scale in over a decade.
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New York, New York, United StatesOctober 1, 2015IBM Watson collected my resume at the University career fair and asked me to apply online. Shortly thereafter, I was asked to give a HireVue coding test. The coding test was unexpectedly long, lasting 4 to 4.5 hours: 2 hours for a single problem and
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New York, New York, United StatesDecember 7, 2016The screen interview took almost two hours. It included some behavioral questions and data structure questions. There were three coding questions and one question where I needed to explain my thought process. The questions were basic, but the coding
