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      Software Developer - Lead Python Developer Interview

      Dec 12, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Dublin, Dublin) in Nov 2025

      Interview

      the main tech interview was very different than a NORMAL interview. The first thing interviewer asked me was to share my full screen with them. They themselves didn't turn on their camera though. They asked to build an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server straight from scratch, and asked to behave as you would normally do when you have to build something new, without any help from a code generators like GPT. Don;t ask me why? just DO it they way you'll do it by learning it on the go. However, I was allowed to take help from internet like following some tutorials etc. I built a one in node backend and with javascript frontend. I spin up a sample model, I could see on the UI the lifecycle of a model etc. The interviewer ghosted me in the middle of the interview and never returned. They were still on the call but not answering my questions. I explained my approach well and shared screenshots with them in the meeting chat, and ended the call as I had to take another call at the top of the hour. They contacted me back to have another call on to resume where THEY left the meeting. |-_-| I again expalined my logic and the interviewer frowned up on why I did not implemenetd an MCP server in python? They asked on Packageing python code. making it shippable. how do you manage the REST API versioning. Have you used Statistics tools at work ? The interviewer was confused himself on what is the difference between a statictics tool vs the visualisation tools. Interviewer was very ambigous on questions, you need to really really clarify with them on what are they asking ? he actually wnated to know about Statistics Analysis tools? Other questions were around FASTAPI ? how do you package your software ? pyPi and VU ?