Backend Developer Intern 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 64.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a Backend Developer Intern according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Background check: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I had an online technical interview followed by an in-person personal/technical interview. The hiring manager was very clear about the process and his expectations of the roles as an intern.
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Two "leetcode style" questions, one algorithms based, one database.
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM in Nov 2025
Interview
The interview was easy; they discussed points from my resume. I had written cloud computing in my resume so they based off almost all of the interview on it, especially the debugging part.
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Question 1
How do you know which function is causing the application or instance is causing the application to crash?
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
Phone interview with engineering manager. After that I had another talk with a second engineering to talk about the project I will be assigned to during my internship.
Then I had to do Online Assessment / Coding assessment
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question was Regex. I had to implement a Regex function, I used Python. The second question was an SQL query given a table.