Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 15%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at IBM in Nov 2015
Interview
Phone Screen followed by full-day interview on-site and lunch with the team. Split day into 5 x 1-1.5 hour interviews with project lead, lead software architect, and two software engineers from within the team. Mix of behavioral/ technical questions from all interviewers, in proportion from 50/50 to 100%. Mix of whiteboarding, coding on paper, and walking thru code sample from one of my earlier projects (a lot of "why did I write it that way?" open-ended questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a function to compare two strings and determine if they're the same.
Fair. Not so difficult, everyday questions. The people were friendly. I think it would be a good place to work. I can't compare it with other interviews since this is the first one I got
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Needham Heights, MA)
Interview
the interview process was through i met with various recruiters and team leads i did a take home test before hand and i listed about my experiences everyone was kind
i have interviewed for that role and it went well, recruiter call and round 1 technical interview and round 2 panel round and round 3 is hr, more from resume and job responsibilities