IBM Software Engineer interview experience

I had an online assessment/first screen that covered core problem-solving—typically LeetCode-style questions—and then I moved into interviews where the focus leaned heavily on explaining my background. In the 1:1 conversations, I spent time walking through my resume and projects in depth, and I could feel the interviewer drawing out how I thought through my work.

For the technical parts, I still saw a light coding element: sometimes it was an easy LeetCode prompt like arrays, and other times it was medium-level style questions but with an emphasis on verbalizing logic rather than getting