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IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with HR reaching out, and then I went into an initial virtual screening where I was asked a Java basics question.

After that, there was a gap and then my profile got forwarded for a next step that felt like it would move things along.

A big part of what I experienced centered on an online assessment hosted on HackerRank with three coding questions. I cleared all test cases, and the questions pushed me to pay attention to edge cases and manage my time carefully. What threw me off was the lack of communication afterward—after the initial rounds, I didn’t hear anything further for a while, even though I felt good about completing the coding accurately.

Overall the journey had a strange disconnect: the

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