IBM Software Engineer interview experience

Those questions were about how I’d handled past work—UI changes and integrations—and the whole thing stayed grounded in practical details, not abstract theory.

After that, the technical part drifted into more general software engineering fundamentals that still felt relevant to what I’d claimed on my resume. I remember questions about SQL querying and cloud concepts, including how I’d decide when and how to use the cloud in realistic situations. They also asked about REST API behavior, including return/exception best practices and differences around HTTP statuses like 404 and 403.

The final