u/soft-hearted-person

Hey everyone, I'm a fresher who got selected by IBM India for the Associate System Engineer role through campus hiring. My offer letter mentioned 22nd June 2026 as my Date of Joining. However, a week before joining, I received an email from IBM HR asking me to confirm availability for 29th June instead, which I confirmed.

A few days before 29th June, the HR called me and told me that the 29th joining has also been postponed and that they will inform me of the new date later.

When I followed up via email, the eschoolhiring team replied saying they are trying to get me an early joining but there needs to be "appropriate available demand to map me to a project" and that they will get in touch once they have an update.

It's now been over a week since the postponement and I have no confirmed joining date yet.

My questions:

1. Has anyone else faced this situation with IBM campus hiring?

2. How long did it take for you to get a new joining date?

3. Is there anything I can do to speed this up or should I just wait?

Hey everyone, I'm a fresher who got selected by IBM India for the Associate System Engineer role through campus hiring. My offer letter mentioned 22nd June 2026 as my Date of Joining. However, a week before joining, I received an email from IBM HR asking me to confirm availability for 29th June instead, which I confirmed.

A few days before 29th June, the HR called me and told me that the 29th joining has also been postponed and that they will inform me of the new date later.

When I followed up via email, the eschoolhiring team replied saying they are trying to get me an early joining but there needs to be "appropriate available demand to map me to a project" and that they will get in touch once they have an update.

It's now been over a week since the postponement and I have no confirmed joining date yet.

My questions:

1. Has anyone else faced this situation with IBM campus hiring?

2. How long did it take for you to get a new joining date?

3. Is there anything I can do to speed this up or should I just wait?

I appeared for my IBM CIC interview on 12th and 13th May. Shortly after, my background verification was initiated on the same day as the interview. After a long wait, I received my offer letter on 9th June, with 22nd June mentioned as my joining date.

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A little later, I received an email asking me to confirm my availability to join on 29th June instead. This left me confused, since all the onboarding formalities had been proceeding based on the 22nd June date. I emailed HR to clarify, and she confirmed in May that 29th June would be my joining date, adding that they were still looking into the process and would confirm it shortly.

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Now, with only one week left before the tentative 29th June joining date, I still haven't received final confirmation from her, and I'm quite anxious about it.