I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Chennai) in Mar 2024
Interview
2 Online Rounds - English Assessment (Quickfire) and Coding Assessment (1 Simple HackerRank Question, Language of your choice)
Once Qualified, You will be called for Offline Rounds for their choice of venue. All rounds are elimination rounds.
First Round - Again simple HackerRank Questions. Qualified participants will move on to second Round
Second Round - Group Discussion - Topic will be given by the interviewer, you will be asked to give thoughts and opinions on the topic.
Third Round - If not eliminated in GD, you will proceed on to the interview.
For the Interview, keep calm, make sure that you didn't lie on resume about any technical skills because questions asked by interviewer will be to test your knowledge on the skills mentioned on your resume. Therefore, it will not be a good look for you if you can't answer the interviewer. Length of interview is around 10 - 15 minutes.
IBM's recruitment process seems to be in shambles because I had given this interview in Mar 2024, Cleared the interview and received a LOI two weeks after. Still waiting on the Onboarding call/Offer Letter. I would highly suggest not making IBM your priority like I did. Keep your options open.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the SQL query to add a new column in a table?
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.
