IBM Software Engineer interview experience

After that, the interview phase leaned heavily into behavioral and a deep resume review. The interviewer went in-depth on my background, and then at the end they asked a technical question that sat at a medium level. I remember thinking that the main thing they wanted was for me to show a clear understanding and explain my thought process as I worked through it.

What surprised me was how much of the technical evaluation was tied to my resume and what I had already talked about. Instead of it feeling like a pure coding-heavy gauntlet, it felt more like they were checking whether my