IBM Software Engineer interview experience

Even though it was short, it was still fairly okay, and the discussion stayed focused on my fit rather than running a big multi-step gauntlet.

What surprised me after the offer was how much the day-to-day work could depend on the manager. I was hired as an SDE, but later they made it sound like the work might shift toward QA-type tasks, as if job titles weren’t the real boundary. I didn’t end up getting an offer here, but the bigger impression I got was how placement interviews can move fast and still leave uncertainty about what the role actually turns into. The weirdest part for me was