SE @ IBM

So I got an email today for a phone interview with IBM for an SE role! It’s super early so I’m just doing my due diligence and wanting to inquire about life at IBM. Are there any SE’s that have experience at IBM and can speak to it?

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I don’t have any experience there, but congrats on the interview! Excited to hear how it goes.

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Thank you!

That's huuuge, congrats! No experience there either but hopefully this comment gets you some traction. Best of luck!

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Thank you so much!

I worked as an SE for a few years before changing role internally.

Well done on the interview. The phone interviews can be quite box-ticky, so just make sure you are STAR- question'd up prior to taking the call, depending on your interviewer (probably an internal recruiter at this stage).

Have a good list of personal projects, initiatives you have led etc for this and later calls. IBM tends to like people who can lead and be innovative from non-leadership roles.

It's always nice to mention things about the company from the news- statements of direction, acquisitions, and launches. Talking about Watsonx is always a winner.

In IBM Technology, there is a mantra that everyone is a seller. So be ready to talk about how you can take commercial elements of some parts of the sales process, and can think of things from a sales hat as well as technical.

Good luck with it!

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This is extremely helpful, thank you so much!

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Be in the know with watsonx :) good luck

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I can confirm the "everyone is a seller" at IBM. I was an SE for a few years and that's partially why I left. Got handed a list of prospects with no AE info. Clearly they wanted me to sell. I mean SEs have to do some selling. I get that but it wasn't what I signed up for.

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