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user-inactivated  ·  3069 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3 Questions with @caelum19

I know a few IBMers. For the most part they're as stuffy as you expect a corporation that large and that old to be, but they're also a relatively old corporation who have employed a lot of engineers, programmers and mathematicians through their history, and have a lot of institutional knowledge of the common quirks all those professions. As long as you're doing your job well and aren't outright hostile, they're very tolerant techies ignoring the corporate bullshit, and in places where they do the "up or out" thing they usually provide a technical "up". It's a much better place to work than they tell you it's going to be when they're trying to recruit you.