Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 18%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
Presentation: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
Background check: 7%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Fresno, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Pre screening 2 hacker rank questions one easy one hard. Completed easy in 8 mins was not able to complete hard question: two sum and then lexicographically smallest string after swaps if adjacent values are different parity
Fair. Not so difficult, everyday questions. The people were friendly. I think it would be a good place to work. I can't compare it with other interviews since this is the first one I got
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Needham Heights, MA)
Interview
the interview process was through i met with various recruiters and team leads i did a take home test before hand and i listed about my experiences everyone was kind
i have interviewed for that role and it went well, recruiter call and round 1 technical interview and round 2 panel round and round 3 is hr, more from resume and job responsibilities