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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at IBM
- 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
Overview
The role is heavily focused on supporting the move of IBM from legacy financial reporting ledger systems to SAP S/4 HANA. On most days, I work with Portfolio teams and accounting focuses to design, test and deploy their reporting interfaces into SAP S/4 HANA, through 6-month-long projects that encapsulate the entire Finance organisation.
Skills
Yes, I have learned quite a few new skills as well as honed existing ones. New Skills Acquired SAP, JIRA, Mural, Business Analytics, User Storywriting and Agile, Requirement Analysis Developed Existing Skills Cross-cultural communication, time management and more
Responsibilities
Indeed. I was in charge of delivering a total of 6 Portfolio teams' integration into S/4 HANA over the course of a year. Additionally, I was the focal point for delivering the enablement of 4 new payroll reporting interfaces that were due to be integrated in SAP. From an administrative perspective, I was the iteration manager of our squad, leading daily stand-ups, retrospectives and planning sessions, as well as managing our backlog.
Support & Guidance
The support was always there. At IBM, you get at least 2 managers who look after your progress, a Foundation Manager, who is solely focused on your growth and progress in the company, as well as the HR side of the role, as well as a Task Manager, who's main responsibility is to assign you into projects and check the progress of your work. Moreover, there are societies and a comprehensive online learning platform you can always go to for support.
Culture
There is a heavy focus on being agile and resilient. As we worked unforeseen hiccups would come up and we were expected to adapt quickly and deliver a solution to it. Furthermore, the company is driven by its growth behaviours, which you see displayed in any instance you work with fellow IBMers. Here I would like to mention being growth-minded and having a constant appetite for learning more and thinking outside the box. Generally, the atmosphere in the Area I worked in was quite relaxed. However, when push came to shove, it was all hand on deck from everyone. A blindening example of teamwork at its finest.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at IBM, as I got to learn leads as well as got the chance to deliver on projects alongside some great fellow IBMers. I absolutely enjoyed the independence I had in taking up new projects, learning paths or just kicking off new initiatives inside our squad. If I was asked whether I would like to a do a Graduate Scheme with IBM, my answer would be: Absoultely!
Yes
As clique as this sounds, just be honest and yourself. They are looking for driven, growth-minded people and there is no better way of showcasing that than being yourself.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Information Technology
South West
July 2025