IBM Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM (Markham, ON) in Feb 2024
Interview
Interview process started with a phone call with HM, in which we discussed my experience and I was asked some behaviour questions. The next interview was technical interview with HM and 2 Engineers. The offer was lower than the range I gave them in the beginning.
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Explain in which scenario you would write certain code?
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Jul 2021
Interview
First round was a basic technical interview. Introduction, Fundamentals of dot net, c# , SQL and Cloud concepts. They asked about the different projects I had worked on and detailed discussion on the major bottlenecks faced and steps taken to resolve them.
Second round : Technical interview - in depth questions related to my previous work and scenario based questions mainly on dot net and some on cloud and dot net core.
Manager round was non technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in Aug 2022
Interview
Basic ops concepts.
Core funda of technology.
Core level and depends on interviewer someof asked deep level also.
Some of interviewer asked some codding question also like array, string, or some mathematics question to solve it
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Question 1
What oops and basic javascript to heigh leval javascript question