IBM Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 25 days.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at IBM in Dec 2017
Interview
The interviewer used hireVue. One can write code in the edit window provided by hireVue.
You will receive session key to start the interview. The mic and camera should be working.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- virtual functions
- walking through C++ code (it had a memory leak)
- fixing the leak required the use of virtual destructor
- writing C code for binary tree creation, recursive/non-recursive
- a brief overview of my work experience
- one easy question on assembly language
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2014
Interview
Interview Process was not bad recruiter sends email to connect and have phone conversation, next HR will talk for 30 min phone moving to 1 hour phone interview with team. Typically it takes 1 month to hear about final decision
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Ann Arbor, MI) in Apr 2017
Interview
Online coding question then video questions detailing your thinking through the problem. It took 3 hours total to complete the interview. Phone screen comes afterward but I didn't make it through for that.