IBM Software Developer Engineer interview questions
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Software Developer Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 40 days.
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R1: Resume overview plus specific questions from the technologies used in the interview. Went pretty in depth about each project listed as well as responsibilities. Ended with a conceptual leetcode problem, didnt have to code it just explain a solution.
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Specific questions about connections between resources managed by kubernetes
It was through campus placements.
They asked 1-2 easy leetcode dsa questions.
Computer fundamentals like oop, sql dbms, docker, operating system. Python fundamentals.
Basic system design and rest api framework.
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Data Structures, SQL, DBMS, REST API, COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS.
The OA was done on Hackerrank with two medium questions, no proctoring / camera. The questions were wordy and seems complicated but the logic for the solutions are straightforward and not too hard.
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Array input processing and retrieval done in <=O(n)