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 online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at IBM (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2020
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Asked a few questions about python and java, for the technical section. Some questions on inheritance and other object oriented programming questions were also present. The next round was behavioral.
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Question 1
Q: Define OOP? Q: In Python if you subtract a very small number from another very small number, is the result precise?
First stage is hacker rank coding challenges, probably around medium difficulty and some basic questions about HTML/CSS. Really did not give me any insight into what the actual work would have been like.
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How select an html element and apply some styling.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at IBM (North Twenty Four Parganas) in Mar 2021
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The process starts with an online test and then after shortlisting the interview tests the technical knowledge of the candidate thoroughly , and asks questions related to data structures, algorithms .