IBM Software Engineer interview experience

After those, there was a system design round, and finally a behavioral interview with the hiring manager. It all felt well organized, but the technical parts were intense enough that I always felt like I was on the clock.

Between the coding rounds and the system design, it was the depth of the questions that stood out. They didn’t just want a correct solution—they pushed into how I approached prior experience and how I thought about databases and deeper optimization topics. The behavioral round still mattered too: I talked through my leadership and teamwork, and the questions were sometimes