I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Armonk, NY) in Oct 2018
Interview
I interviewed on campus. Case study on revenue growth and identifying high growth clients. On-site interview had a presentation on a take home data challenge and then a series of fit or case interviews. Case interviews are very basic. Had a small technical round with SQL and algorithm questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why IBM ? Technical questions were off the resume.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
I had 2 rounds of interview. First was an initial phone screen which was mostly about my background. Second round was technical interview on Skype. I was tested mostly on basics of statistics and project work. Different types of ML models that I have used and the inferences derived from them.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Q: Describe linear regression and where have you used it in your work or projects? what is R squared value?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM
Interview
I had two 20-min interviews about my resume, the projects that I did, and some general questions.
Then there was the next stage where I solved the challenge (you are given ~5 hours to do it).
Last stage was to come to the office for three interviews, one of them was presentation of results of the challenge to the panel of 3 people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most unpleasant experience you had in past year?