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      Software Developer Interview

      Jun 20, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Pittsburgh, PA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Pittsburgh, PA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      I was first contacted via email, telling me I passed the initial resume screening. The first round was a recorded interview, meaning you weren't talking to an interviewer. The first round had behavioral and technical questions. Behavioral questions were mostly pretty general and not hard to answer, however there was a question "Tell me a new technology that you are learning right now outside of school and describe it", that kind of threw me off. There were 3 coding questions too. After I got past the first round, I had a live online interview. This one was much easier, as it is just treated almost like an informal chat (going through resume, talking about my experience, answering my questions) and also with much easier coding questions. I thought I messed up the behavioral part on the first one real bad, but did pretty good on the coding part, so don't beat yourself up if you stutter a little bit or run out of interesting things you can say. As long as you present yourself through your code, you should be fine.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      (1st round) Given a string, newline separated input of a sales inventory (ex. """ 2018-6-19, apple 2018-6-10, pear 2018-6-19, apple """ ) print out a condensed, chronologically ordered inventory like """ 2018-6-10, pear,1 2018-6-19, apple,2 """
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Given a randomly ordered list of numbers 1...10000, with a number missing. Find the missing number. (ex. input [9459,1349,5348,69,1,299,...])
      1 Answer
      1

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