Internship at IBM

Posted on November 6, 2008

After I droped one course, I had too much time on my hands and started looking for a job. After one week I had three iterviews:  two with IBM and one with Morgan-Stanley.

Morgan-Stanley did not make me an offer yet, but I think that they will.

The good thing about Morgan-Stanley:

• It is a full time job in the downtown Montreal
• I can have a free ride to work
• I will probably get a very decent salary

But I will probably will go for IBM for several reasons:

• I want to have a challenging job
• I want to work for an IT company
• I want to start living on my own.

Also at my 10am interview at Morgan-Stanley, the place was too quiet – I don’t mind working in quiet space, but not for a weeks, months, years!For IBM I had interviews for:

• SWG-0183378 J9 Java Class Libraries – Intern Software Developer position
• SWG-0183444 Rational Requirements Definition Offering – Intern Software Developer position

It’s a 4 month internship with option to stay as an employee or continue the internship for 4 more months (I will try stay for the summer term). Both teams offered me a position. I think I got a pretty sweet deal: I would have a chance to do something outside my conform zone, get paid well and finally live on my own for a while.
Now which IBM offer to accept?
First one is challenging, I will have to work on both java and C code, but this kind of low level development interests me. Plus hardcore developers probably work on VM.
Second one I think is a more traditional Java application development job. But is has an interesting aspect to it – I will have to develop a prototype in Eclipse for my thesis, so it would be a plus if I learn it at IBM, who are the experts on Eclipse. This way I would spend less time developing software and more time on my thesis. Also the tool they are developing if useful for software maintenance a potential topic for my thesis.
I will probably choose the first one, after all eclipse is just another big library, and I can learn it on my own, and the “proof of concept” application for my thesis does not have to be the state of the art piece of software, it just have to confirm my thesis.

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