I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Pittsburgh, PA) in Apr 2018
Interview
I was first contacted via email, telling me I passed the initial resume screening. The first round was a recorded interview, meaning you weren't talking to an interviewer. The first round had behavioral and technical questions. Behavioral questions were mostly pretty general and not hard to answer, however there was a question "Tell me a new technology that you are learning right now outside of school and describe it", that kind of threw me off. There were 3 coding questions too. After I got past the first round, I had a live online interview. This one was much easier, as it is just treated almost like an informal chat (going through resume, talking about my experience, answering my questions) and also with much easier coding questions. I thought I messed up the behavioral part on the first one real bad, but did pretty good on the coding part, so don't beat yourself up if you stutter a little bit or run out of interesting things you can say. As long as you present yourself through your code, you should be fine.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
(1st round)
Given a string, newline separated input of a sales inventory (ex.
"""
2018-6-19, apple
2018-6-10, pear
2018-6-19, apple
"""
)
print out a condensed, chronologically ordered inventory
like
"""
2018-6-10, pear,1
2018-6-19, apple,2
"""
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY) in May 2018
Interview
The process took 4 months. There were two phone interviews and a nine hour in-person interview at Yorktown Heights with twelve interviewers. I would not consider the interview technical, but there were a handful of questions about basic computer science that only one person asked. After I interviewed, the hiring manager ghosted me. After three emails to the hiring manager of the period of a month, he sent me scripted response. I would not recommend the quantum computing division of IBM. The interviewers seemed intimidated by my PhD, I really don’t know why I was asked to interview.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at IBM
Interview
Web interview, 2 rounds, first behavioural, second technical (remote coding). Different people for the first round and second. Behavioural questions were typical, and they ask you to ask them questions too. Technical part was in Javascript but they told me beforehand. They also said to think out loud, which is really important! I didn't finish the coding part, but I did make sure to think aloud the whole time.