IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

San Jose, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a mostly early-stage, mixed assessment and interview flow where the first call was easy to talk through and the technical pieces were limited.

OA + scheduled manager interview — I applied online, took an online assessment, and was scheduled for an interview with a team manager; afterward I heard back with an offer for me fairly quickly.
30-minute first-round call — I did a 30-minute call with basic LeetCode questions to show coding understanding plus behavioral questions.
Resume discussion + easy arrays LeetCode — We talked about my resume for about twenty minutes, and near the end I got an easy arrays LeetCode problem.
DevSecOps-focused interview (no LeetCode) — For a DevSecOps-position variant, they drilled

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