The overall experience for senior technical role interview at IBM ISL(India software Labs) was negative. I breezed through the interview and everything was hunky dory until it came to salary negotiations. I guess their salary levels were less than even my current CTC. thats ok with me, but i expect them to check this before calling me for interviews. Infact i had to grind for 4 hours of interviews only to be given this news later.But this is not my only crib... The interviews were average in some case downright pathetic. Some of the questions included the infamous "swap 2 integers without using temporary variable", that is a 15 year old question that managers who stopped coding back then still ask to display their smartness. But this coming from a person who looked like an architect looked horrible. Only god(and the interviewer) knew how many variables i would need to swap in my actual work. Few such other cliche's were also thrown at me.Worst is, they never asked any scenario based questions and instead resorted to such gimmicks. In many cases, questions were repeated across interviews. By the time it was 3-4 hours, i felt sick and anyway wanted to leave.