IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview experience for this role felt surprisingly light but the delivery wasn’t.

The process included a technical assessment and then a zoom chat, and even though the questions were more about mindset and fundamentals than deep algorithms, the session itself felt awkward because the interviewer was covering for someone and the video view wasn’t clear.

On a different path that felt closer to what I’d expected, the whole process was genuinely relaxed: I got asked basic behavioral questions plus high-level technical trivia, and there was no leetcode coding at all. The interviewer was friendly and the conversation felt more like a straightforward discussion than a strict

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