IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an on-campus IBM loop that felt packed and very systems-heavy.

The first big technical chunk lasted about 1.5 hours and covered a wide range: ML basics, SQL/NoSQL, concurrency, operating systems, networking, and even code-related work like heap sort where I had to dry-run it. There were also typical programming prompts in C such as finding common characters between two strings using low-level concepts like pointers.

After that, the next part blended technical and HR, with emphasis shifting toward infrastructure topics like Docker and Kubernetes plus VM resource concepts. My technical interview rounds moved fast and required me to be comfortable hopping

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