My Life

Well it’s nearly here. Four more days and I start work at IBM.

I received the job in May 2008 and have been waiting for this the whole year. On Tuesday 13th January I will be leaving Melbourne for Sydney. IBM is sending me to Sydney for four weeks of training after which I will be placed into one of three sections (Web Portals, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Application Development).

I’m excited to be starting work at IBM, but I must admit I’m very excited about traveling to Sydney and living there by myself for the next four weeks. It should be a great experience and one that I will remember for the rest of my life.

I’ll try to update my blog while I’m up there to share my thoughts and daily activities.

Wish me luck.

Thanks,

Marat

Well the day I had been waiting for had finally arrived. On Wednesday the 7th of May 2008 at exactly 17:08 (5:08pm for those who don’t understand 24 hour time) I answered a phone call from IBM.

I was told that a position has been offered to me in their Global Business Services department. I had kindly accepted the offer and was very thankful for their call.

The position is an IT Consultant. Mainly I will be a application developer for the first year or so and then I may move around to other positions/roles. I will be starting full time work in 2009, no date specified yet.

Thanks,

Marat

Yesterday from 8.45am to 3pm I had attended IBM’s Fast Track Day. A day where you have a quick presentation with a group, then four interviews (three being behavioural and one technical) and a test that’s a mix between logic and simple mathematics.

The day went by pretty quickly and I felt IBM’s interview process seemed to be a lot easier than most others who have 3 maybe 4 interviews.

The whole day was pretty relaxed and all the interviewers were pretty laid back which helped with the nerves. The interviews all went pretty well for me and I really enjoyed the technical one. It wasn’t technical in the sense of “here’s code, what does it do?” but it just asked about my coding styles, what my favourite and best languages were and so on.

The test was quite interesting in the sense that there were too many questions for the time. The second part of the test which was pattern recognition where you had to find the next number in the sequence gave you 4 minutes to complete 20 questions, which was only 12 seconds per questions. I myself did pretty well on that one answering all but 2 questions in that part.
The other parts were just simple maths with a little bit of logic and reasoning, nothing too special.

All in all it was a good day. Now comes the nervous wait for a call from IBM to see whether I had been good enough to obtain a graduate position.

Thanks,

Marat