I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Austin, TX) in Mar 2025
Interview
passed all tests on Online Assessment. then a panel interview with a few managers to talk about the role. asked resume based question and some behavior questions. was told there would be ranking and top ranked candidates would be selected to next round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what was the motivation for this project, how did you come up with the project idea.
It was a 45 minute behavioral and technical interview. They asked standard behavioral questions and technical follow ups to each question. No leetcode was asked but required to know git concepts
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Poughkeepsie, NY) in Dec 2025
Interview
First was OA. Then was, first round was with HM and basic resume grilling and a brain teaser (marble balance). The second round was a panel and further resume grilling with a heavy focus on AI. No live coding.
I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (Cochin) in Sep 2025
Interview
OA, Technical, Managerial round. OA was mostly leetcord easy and medium. Had a question from array prefix sum and another from a string. Technical round had 2-3 DSA questions from stack, and hashmaps were i had to write the pseudocode and explain it. The interviewer also asked me an aptitude puzzle. After these he dived into my resume and asked questions from there.
Managerial round was pretty basic and was asked further questions from my resume
