IBM Graduate role

Songmeister

Hi,
I've an interview with IBM coming up soon so I'm just wondering if anyone could tell me what to expect. I'm a little uncertain as the role is Software Engineer but the spec. seems to indicate it's more tech support:https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=SWG-0111502&lang=EN&mc=5c46fc8097eb0d21d816e4a4fcccaeff&graduate=1&region_id=0&continent_id=0&master_bu_id=0&employ_percentage_id=0&function_id=0&subcategory_id=0&keywords=&hm_keywords=&new_this_week=false&desired_bu_id=0&desired_product_1_id=0&desired_product_type_id_1=0&desired_product_type_id_2=0&desired_product_type_id_100=0&desired_product_type_id=0&job_start_date_year=0&job_start_date_month=0&job_start_date_day=0&desired_region_id=0&date_posted_year=0&date_posted_month=0&date_posted_day=0&desired_markt_region_id=0&hotjobs=1&mgnpos=0&anylocation=0&employment_type_id=0&travel_percentage_id=-1&ERBP=0&jobcode=&workathome=&adv=1&t=1199742097446
At least it doesn't mention the dreaded word "telephone".

Stark

Technical Support Professional

That looks like technical support And you will be on the telephone if you're working in the support department. I have heard though that the crowd in the tech support dept are better to work for than the crowd in software. One guy who moved over described it as "a different IBM".

Who told you it was a software engineering role? Did they say anything about what department you'd be working in?

Stark

Starting money for graduates is actually really good in IBM. (It's once you start building experience that the pay becomes uncompetitive).

Songmeister

Sorry Stark, deleted my reply by accident.
The title is Graduate Software Engineer so that's what made me think it wasn't a tech support role.
I have actually been offered a job somewhere else and more or less accepted so I probably won't take this even if they offer it to me.
I was turned down for the IBM Software Lab 2008 programme so this is probably the alternative for those who don't make it.
I'll go to the interview anyway, whatever I find out might come in useful later on.

Songmeister

Just said I'd post about the interview in case anyone does a search and this thread comes back:
I had two interviews, one with some management guy who gave me the run-down on what the job entails and the second was with a programmer guy who asked me a list of pre-defined questions about what I'd done in college and on work experience and how it relates to the role.
It's not a coding job, I'd just be looking through stack traces from code that threw exceptions and identifying where the error was caused.
No writing code but maybe later on if I did well.
The second guy asked me some questions like what's normalisation, stuff about IIS, web servers, J2EE, security certificates and some other stuff I don't remember.