I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM in Oct 2021
Interview
The entire process took about a month. I was contacted by a recruiter via Handshake with an application link.
1. HackerRank test of moderate difficulty
2. Brief 15 minute phone call with a recruiter
3. HR interview with team lead
4. Final technical/behavioral interview
I received my offer the same day as my final interview. Everyone was very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on frameworks, walking through projects, and software development in general.
I did the interview at the IBM company. It was a very simple one-to-one interview. The interviewer asked about basics questions on my projects and programmes. She also helped me understand on where I went wrong and areas to improve.
A recruiter reached out to me about scheduling some time to speak. They just scheduled a time without even confirming my availability first. Thought it would be an initial phone screen, but was a technical interview with someone different than I was emailing. The lack of communication and information was disappointing
I first received an online language test. Then got invited for an offline coding round. It was a fairly average-level question with 7-8 test cases on the HackerRank platform. People who passed even 3-4 test cases got selected for the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was an ASCII code-based string array coding problem.