IBM "Extreme Blue" Internships

by **sergio** Mon 23 May 2011, 08:17

The Extreme Blue™ program is IBM's premier internship program for top-notch students pursuing software development and MBA degrees.

Once selected into the program, you will become part of a team working in one of the 15 Extreme Blue labs worldwide. Your team's challenge is to develop the technology and business plan for a new product or service that addresses an existing market challenge.

Through the program, interns have submitted more than 400 patent disclosures and have made more than sixty open source contributions to the open source community. They helped create solutions for key clients and bring-to-market the next generation of IBM products. Not bad for just 12 weeks of work.

Unlike other intern programs that may relegate you to work on outdated technology, the Extreme Blue teams work on leading technology that helps grow your skills and evolve you into a more attractive candidate in the technology field. Interns in this high-performance environment get to roll up their sleeves and work with "hot" technologies such as Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and petabyte-scale data analysis.

Ready to start something BIG?
Recruiting criteria varies across all geographies, but if you have the right skills, experience, and passion listed here, select your geography and find out more.

Preference is given to undergraduate and graduate candidates who are completing their studies within one year after the internship.

What we look for in our candidates.
We want to build the best possible teams for the Extreme Blue™ projects and look at three main factors across all geographies:

Skills
This is a short program with extremely challenging projects, so all teams are expected to hit the ground running.

Experience
MBA students must have some business experience; although, you do not need experience in running a start-up, nor do you need to be experienced in writing code. For technical students, we are looking for strong experience in a technical industry in C, C++, or Java™ software development.

Passion
We are looking for people to work on projects and technologies they are passionate about, so enthusiasm is critical.

For further information and applications please visit Extreme Blue Internship website here