IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an IBM ISDL (Bangalore) style process for an EDA Developer Tools role that felt very structured right from the start.

After an initial stage, I completed an online assessment on HackerRank that included a couple of DSA questions—graph and DP—plus a set of multiple-choice questions.

A short while later, I had a screening call where the conversation centered on C++ and DSA concepts. We talked about C++ details and I remember being asked pretty specifically about pointers, and then about virtual functions—how they work and when you’d use that kind of polymorphism.

Overall it felt like a fast, concept-focused funnel: DSA first to validate problem-solving, then C++ fundamentals to confirm I really understood

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