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      Software Developer Interview

      Oct 12, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      La Jolla, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at IBM (La Jolla, CA) in Jan 2018

      Interview

      In October 2017 I went to an IBM Event made for networking where I talked with multiple hiring managers and eventually put in my resume. It wasn't until January 2018 that I heard back from IBM (I had forgotten that I'd even applied). I was made to do a 4 hour long standalone coding challenge with 3 questions of increasing difficulty. I did well on the first one, did pretty badly but finished the second one, and completely failed the third one. I also had to answer some questions live on my webcam, including how I did the third one (even though I never finished it). I just owned up to not having finished it but explained what I would've done to finish solving it. February 2018 I got another email saying I was moved on to a Guru interview, which was basically a one on one with another IBM employee. He would ask questions on my resume and also give me a few questions that were significantly simpler than the coding challenge. After this guru interview, I received my offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Fizzbuzz, except it used THINK and IBM. There was a twist in that you needed to append THINK whenever you were on a number that contained a 2 in it, and since you had to do 100 repetitions, you did have to think a little bit.
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