I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Westford, MA) in May 2012
Interview
I was contacted for an interview about two weeks after I submitted my resume for the position. After an initial phone screening, I was set up for a phone interview with two of the hiring managers at the same time. A week later I was contacted to come in for a formal interview at their offices in Westford where I met with two more hiring managers. The interview was about an hour long and detailed all of the functions I would be performing for the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How will your experience to date help you in this job role? And how will you make up for those experiences that we outlined that you don't have.
Interviewer doesn't ask related questions. He is trying to google it and expecting same answer as per google only. Even though they don't know the concept, at a point I feel that person/interviewer is not related technology which they want.
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Question 1
Puzzle kind of questions they asked. Not related to technical.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at IBM (Hyderābād)
Interview
The interviewers were friendly and approachable. They made sure the candidate is comfortable and ensured that they are at ease. The first round was conversational, followed by take home case study and then follow up on the case study in the job location. The fourth round was manager round and the fifth was the final round on salary discussion
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Question 1
Case study was on a set of data pipelines and analysis of the same
They started off with the typical questions, such as “tell me about yourself,” followed by a couple of behavioral questions, and then they asked me why I wanted to work at IBM.
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Question 1
Tell me about something that you regret and how you overcome it