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.
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1 online Hacker rank test , 1 offline coding test , 1 round of technical interview
Coding test was 1 medium level and 1 easy level questions
In technical there questions where more related to my projects and there was a puzzle
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Question 1
Basic opps concept
Algorithms
Sorting questions
Time complexity
First round was an online evaluation with LC Medium-Hard questions. Isn't too bad if you're good at backtracking and dp. They give you two hours to finish it but it takes less than an hour.
Smooth interview process, Started off with the Info and then went on with OOPS,Data Structures and algorithms and also asked after sorting algorithms such as quick sort, even SQL was, JOIN, types and to write a query.