IBM·Systems Engineer

IBM Systems Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

BengaluruPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an overall experience that started fine on the technical side, but the final HR conversation derailed everything for me.

The earlier coding and communication rounds were described as easy, but when I reached HR, the interaction felt unclear and unfairly hard to follow.

The HR interview was more confusing than anything else because the questions weren’t coming through clearly, and it came down to not understanding what was being asked. By the time I realized I couldn’t interpret the prompts reliably, the rest of the conversation just felt like I was scrambling rather than answering.

I didn’t end up receiving an offer. The hardest part for me wasn’t the content—it was how much the HR round depended on

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