I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Calcuta) in Jul 2016
Interview
First of all, hiring process was done through referral mode.
The whole process took 2 weeks.
First they took online test which were of two rounds, both being elimination round.
First online test was of Number Series and Aptitude. Both sections consisted of 18 question with time limit of 2 minutes and 15 seconds and between each question a break was given for 30 seconds, which was optional, its upto you to take break or not. After passing that test you will give 2nd online test which was of English, basic questions were asked like punctuation marks, error, active voice, passive voice, business communication emails, etc. After passing this test I was asked to come after 9 days for interview round(Technical + HR).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me three questions only.
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. A question from DBMS.
3. And explain your final year project.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
It was great ez they asked me pretty basic stuff such as palindrome and string manipulation and the interviewer was a bit frank with me he and i did some chit chat for a bit as occured that we were from same town
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The one thing that they asked me was what technology are u familiar with that IBM uses
The process was okay but the result of the interview took so much time. NO reply to the mails as well. interview was offline and has 3 different rounds. one language round, then coding round and then interview.
First round was a language round that was conducted online. We were asked multiple simple questions in English to test our listening, speaking and reading skills. The next round was a coding assessment round. We were shown two questions of easy-medium level difficulty from the competitive coding website Hacker Rank. The 3rd round was a behavioral assessment round where we were given 5 questions and for each question we were allotted 5 mins to answer before the system automatically submits and goes to the next question. The questions were similar to "Explain about a situation where your leadership allowed for a problem to be solved" etc. The last round was the interview round where they asked both technical and non technical questions. The technical questions that were asked where from the projects we have made that were noted down on our resumes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the reason why you used that python library A over python library B and how would you implement that reasoning into your future career at IBM if accepted?
