I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Poona) in Jun 2015
Interview
I got interview call via linkedin. IBM HR reached out for telephonic interview. Process was slow but it was on time.
First round was HR screen to make sure profile matches and tech stack is known to the candidate.
Second: Technical telephonic interview. Guy was Manager in Big data and asked on Anamoly and data ETL job. ETL process details using ELK stake. Elastic, Logstash. Splunk and so on.
Third: It was by Sr guy of Director level. He explained the role in details. Offered to join Banglore team which was problem for me. Guy is well known speaker and PhD. We discussed on offer and gave out almost close to my expectations (except location).
Fourth: To make sure I join. I said, I can't join as location is issue. IBM being giant org, such employees and teams get lost in process. Guy offered some joining bonus with some more verbal promises.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to detect anomaly? How to connect HDFS, Hive? nosql, splunk, logstash, elasticsearch.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in May 2015
Interview
I got a Inmail from recruiter (IBM employee) who found my profile on linkedin. We moved on mail and call conversation. JD was very much relevant to me.
Round1: HR tech validation and JD matching
Round2: Techies with brief 30min discussion on profile and what exactly I do. matching points with requirement and some basic tech details.
Round3: Final. at IBM office Pune. Discussed detailed on tech questions, how to and what details. It was for 1 hr with tech team on call.
Round4: Offer details.
I got offer after around 2 months of first call. It's damn slow process with IBM. I declined as I read all detailed reviews of IBM and growth. I wasn't very interested to go Banglore.
Offered band B7. 9years work exp.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project specific details, How to connect DB (say oracle) from py, java, shell script? Details on hadoop architecture, nosqls, mysql, shell script, etc