IBM·Software Engineer

IBM Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with an OA that started from basic OOP concepts and then slowly moved into deeper DSA questions.

After that initial ramp-up, the questions tied back to my project work, and it felt like the interviewers were checking whether I could actually explain what I did and support it with technical details. For the DSA portion I remember trees being a big theme.

Then I had a live round that mixed resume grilling with a brain-teaser idea, and later moved into a panel where AI came up heavily. I didn’t do live coding in that stage, but the way they probed my experience made it clear they wanted specifics. The most technical moment was still very much in the “classic” problem-solving style—solving

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