Comments on: Autorejected! http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/15/autorejected I'm a junior at a brand new engineering college. I blog about my life, web stuff, software, technology, and pretty much anything else that strikes my fancy. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:59:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Autorejected! by: Steve http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/15/autorejected#comment-157 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:36:04 +0000 http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/15/autorejected#comment-157 I just came across this post in kind of a roundabout way today, looking through referrer logs on my blog, I found a link here from BlogPulse (http://www.blogpulse.com/search?query=%22extreme+blue%22&offset=0&operator=&start_date=&end_date=&sort=&max_results=&x=25&y=8) and even though it's almost six months later, I thought I could clear a couple things up. I manage systems for Extreme Blue in Austin, TX, as well as recruiting for Extreme Blue at several schools in the Central US. Extreme Blue is an upper level internship at IBM, and is really only a very small part of our overall intern and co-op programs. We hire roughly 60 technical interns in the US each year for Extreme Blue. So, based on volume of applications, we don't autoreject applications. Our recruiting manager does review each application individually. The requirement for six months of Java or C++ experience could easily be met by two previous internship or co-op jobs, so the experience doesn't have to be post college. We actually look for interns who are between Junior and Senior at the undergraduate level, or first year Master's candidates. The reason we look for Java, C, and C++ experience is because most of our projects will involve those languages. The program sets some pretty aggressive schedules and deadlines, and each project is a full life-cycle development from concept through prototype and business plan, so experience is a critical requirement for Extreme Blue. Speed Teams do have a lower requirement for experience, although it's very likely that they will look for Java, C and C++ skills as well. Also, there are lots of regular intern positions at IBM development sites across the country. I'm guessing you have applied for those as well? I just came across this post in kind of a roundabout way today, looking through referrer logs on my blog, I found a link here from BlogPulse (http://www.blogpulse.com/search?query=%22extreme+blue%22&offset=0&operator=&start_date=&end_date=&sort=&max_results=&x=25&y=8) and even though it’s almost six months later, I thought I could clear a couple things up. I manage systems for Extreme Blue in Austin, TX, as well as recruiting for Extreme Blue at several schools in the Central US.

Extreme Blue is an upper level internship at IBM, and is really only a very small part of our overall intern and co-op programs. We hire roughly 60 technical interns in the US each year for Extreme Blue. So, based on volume of applications, we don’t autoreject applications. Our recruiting manager does review each application individually.

The requirement for six months of Java or C++ experience could easily be met by two previous internship or co-op jobs, so the experience doesn’t have to be post college. We actually look for interns who are between Junior and Senior at the undergraduate level, or first year Master’s candidates.

The reason we look for Java, C, and C++ experience is because most of our projects will involve those languages. The program sets some pretty aggressive schedules and deadlines, and each project is a full life-cycle development from concept through prototype and business plan, so experience is a critical requirement for Extreme Blue.

Speed Teams do have a lower requirement for experience, although it’s very likely that they will look for Java, C and C++ skills as well. Also, there are lots of regular intern positions at IBM development sites across the country. I’m guessing you have applied for those as well?

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I totally agree if the experience has to be post college than call it a job and not an internship. I deal with that kind of stuff all the time when applying for jobs. You need three to five years experience. AHHHHH some days it makes me nuts, I have two years of experience and being an administrative assistant on a PR account isn’t that hard. Microsoft doesn’t know what they just passed up, “THATS WHAT!!!!” Can’t wait to see you next week.

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