IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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ThailandPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process felt intense and competition-driven for me.

I applied and then immediately ran into a coding assessment stage, followed by an in-person/f2f exam that had a time-pressure component and a sense of needing to finish while other candidates were also working through it. It wasn’t described as extremely hard, but it definitely came with that “keep moving” pressure, and I could feel the stakes.

After that, the final step was a manager interview. By then I was already mentally exhausted from the earlier technical pressure, but I tried to stay grounded and articulate my thinking clearly. In the end, I got the offer. Looking back, the hardest

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