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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 15, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2014

      Interview

      I applied through an employee referral for an entry level software engineer as I am a new BS graduate. I interviewed with IBM tea leaf in SFO after an initial phone interview for about 20 mins. The phone interview was very casual asking questions about your background and some OOP concepts. A week later I was invited onsite scheduled to interview with 6 people - developers, QA and director. Some of my interviewers didn't show up to work and in order to replace them some other random people interviewed me and it was a little disorganized. Questions were mainly about my background, resume, and projects etc. They grilled me on each and every project/work experience on my resume and asked me questions on how I did whatever I did. I was asked a few technical questions here and there but no extensive whiteboard coding.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      write pseudo code to add a node to a singly linked list
      Answer question

      Question 2

      have you ever used exception handling in your projects? any OOP concepts?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      how did the frontend connect with your backend in your project? How do you parse a JSON object?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      What is the most efficient sorting algorithm? What is its runtime?
      2 Answers

      Question 5

      how do you check if a number is odd or even?
      3 Answers
      4

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