Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en IBM (Chicago, IL) en may 2008
Entrevista
Contacted by an external recruiter for a senior project mgt position.
Got phone screened by a Dallas based internal recruiter. Passed that one.
Second phone screen from a director level consulting person. That went fine.
Flew me to Chicago for two face to face interviews with senior level practice leads. Both went great.
An offer was extended and the number was exactly in line with my target. I accepted.
On the application paperwork, they asked if I had ever worked for IBM. I said yes, about 18 years ago.
At that time I was going through a divorce and my Dad passed away, so my performance review was average. They had all the details just like it was yesterday!!
The job offer went to the VP of HR at IBM. The decision was to rescind the offer. I was livid!! Tried to get it reviewed, but simply fell on deaf ears. That was that.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
There were no significantly challenging interview questions. There may have been one STAR type question, for example, "Tell me about a situation where you were faced with a major project altering decision where you had to go over your managers head?"
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en IBM (Kraków) en nov 2024
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The process was 3 interviews in total, one with the hiring manager, another with the Software Engineering manager and final one with a peer Senior Product Manager.
I had a bad experience of not being even notified when the interviews were going to be scheduled, I needed to by myself and other interactions with other recruiters at IBM find who was assigned for this position and ask to schedule the interviews as my application appeared in “Interviews” stage but no one had reached me out before I did.
After the interviews were done, a time of 4 weeks passed and I didn’t have any feedback, status update nor reason of why I wasn’t selected rather than just the automated email that I was not participating anymore, which I found it very unprofessional keeping in mind I was actively asking for any status.
Even if I wouldn’t be the selected person that’s fine but at least explain the reasons so an individual can improve for any other future opportunity.
Communication with the recruiter was very poor and inconsistent, hence my really bad experience on the process for this role.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What has been a successful project or feature that you have been part of or led from idealization to launch?
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 5 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en IBM (Lisboa, Lisboa) en abr 2023
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Quick and transparent interview with process that as well described. Questions were fair and concise according to the expectations.
Feedback was not the quickest but normal for such type of orocesses
good interview -- 3 interviews that are focused on your ability to operate as product manager (recommend studying and preparing for product manager interviews). Interviews were about 30 minutes long each.
