First day at IBM. Orientation day 1
Posted on January 12, 2009
The first day at IBM was quite good, even though it started with a bit of confusion on my part. This time in addition to me turning too early or going wrong way, my GPS decided to drive me to incorrect locating. I arrived to a huge unmarked building, with lots of parked cars but no kind of logo or street number on it. After asking for help from security, I finally arrived to IBM.
At the training centre I met other students and program coordinators. They gave us an overview of what IBM does, how we will fit in the organization, showed us the movie about IBM past, present and future. Basically we learned that IBM were no longer “Identical Men in Blue” but rather a company concentrated on innovation, change and new ideas. Then we had a rather boring presentation from Cognos, I almost fell asleep, that gave us a demonstration of products and explained what products why make, where they can be used. I am not working for them so it was rather boring for me.
Then we had a 30 minute break to met out mentors and have time to chat and eat some pizza. I will work with another intern from Brazil on IBM J9 class libraries and other 20 or so interns will with work mostly on Rational and Cognos products. Over the break I also found that a some of them would rather work for J9 team ;-)
After we had some more orientation session, we also set-up out passwords, entered bank details. We also had to read and discuss a story of some poor sod and his “Internship of doom”.
Most interns are from U of Ottawa, two exchange students from Brazil, one from U of Monitiba, me from Concordia and maybe one or two from other places. I asked a guy from Ottawa what can we do here, and he basically confirmed that Ottawa suck and he thinks that Montreal rules! ;-)
First day was fun. We finished at about 4pm and I went to IKEA to eat.
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I saw that quite a few people search for “First day at IBM”. Well chill, people at IBM are really friendly, and you don’t have to worry. Personally I had several internships at IBM and now a full time job as a software developer, and the first week you will be busy getting all the accounts, passwords, etc… So, don’t worry, you will have ample time to adjust.
omg… feb 3 2012 first day for me to IBM … totally excited…. wish me guys … :-)