IBM Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 28 days.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Dec 2017
Interview
The interview held with the 'IBM cloud computing' business unit of IBM. Interview Process was good. There were two rounds of technical discussion followed by one HR discussion. The technical discussion was more based on data-structure, algorithms and design-patterns.
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The question were based on process, inter-process communication, thread, inter-thread communication.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in Nov 2017
Interview
The interview process is good right from basic to expertise in technical round also PMO round also excellent.I have given the technical interview on phone and interviewer gives ample time to think for answer.
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Asked Microsoft .net technology related questions on below topic
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oops
sql server
new projects
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Nov 2017
Interview
Interview went good but hiring process still in dilama as my interview happen on 4th Nov 17 and HR told me, she will let me know 1 Dec 17 but still no updates.
Process is too pathetic. However I drop them multiple emails but no response. Do not how they select the candidate.