the first interview is more of a screening process ..but includes some technical questions about basic OOP concepts and your previous experience..second interview is with the team manager and has more tech questions more related to the team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
you may be give java or C++ code depending on what you are comfortable with and asked to debug it.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Toronto, ON) in Aug 2012
Interview
Onsite interview was set up on phone call. Reception ppl weren't friendly at all.
After 20 minutes of wait, two guys (manager and a developer) showed up. Started with famous 'a number and an array and binary search' question. One guys was interacting and the other didn't utter a single word
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question was not difficult. In fact they asked the same queston from almost every interviewee.
Qeustion: Given a number N and an array Arr[], search find two numbers which sum up to number N. When you will suggest binary search for this problem. They will ask about the complexity difference between two nested loop and binary search solution.
After discussion of algorithm/solution, they will ask you to write down the code on paper.
Both interviewers look like of Chinese origin. Only manager got involved in discussion and asked questions. The other one stayed silent. He sounds shy and asocial but was not pyschologist for sure. Maybe he was hired based on his extra-ordinary technical skills or strong internal (possibly Chinese) connection.
The whole interviewed lasted for an hour.