IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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Austin, TXPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through IBM and ended up getting pulled into an interview that quickly became stressful for reasons that weren’t about my skills.

Scheduling bounced around between a recruitment supervisor and different workers in Mumbai, and at one point I was even sent the wrong time. I waited for an hour, emailed the US contact, and it took a day to get things corrected—then the whole ping-pong started again, only to have the interviewer and me finally aligned in the same time frame.

The interviewer was nice, but he expected a technical interview and I hadn’t been told it would be technical. It mostly turned into HR-style questions, and there was a live coding element where he reserved only the last chunk of the call to share the

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