IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My start was immediate: right after applying, I got an email telling me to complete an online assessment on HackerRank within a set window.

The OA was unproctored and used a short time limit with two LeetCode-style questions. I remember how quickly it felt like the whole process could turn on the quality of those two problems.

After I submitted the assessment, I waited. For some time, I didn’t hear much back at all, and the silence made the experience feel unprofessional. When there was communication, it was vague, and the lack of clarity added stress because I didn’t know whether I’d moved forward.

Eventually, I ended up not progressing, and what stuck with me most wasn’t the difficulty of the coding questions—it was how

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