IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

CochinPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process felt like a real software-engineering interview rather than something watered down.

I experienced coding questions that were hard, and that difficulty showed in how the technical rounds were conducted.

One thing that made it tougher was that the technical rounds were taken by software developers themselves. That meant the questions felt closer to how engineers would think through problems, and I could feel that some parts weren’t forgiving if you didn’t arrive with strong coding instincts.

I didn’t receive an offer. Honestly, my reflection was that the experience was “wonderful” in terms of the interviewers’ approach, but the coding difficulty combined with the engineering

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