I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Poughkeepsie, NY) in Dec 2025
Interview
First was OA. Then was, first round was with HM and basic resume grilling and a brain teaser (marble balance). The second round was a panel and further resume grilling with a heavy focus on AI. No live coding.
Other Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern interview reviews for IBM
It was a 45 minute behavioral and technical interview. They asked standard behavioral questions and technical follow ups to each question. No leetcode was asked but required to know git concepts
I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (Cochin) in Sept 2025
Interview
OA, Technical, Managerial round. OA was mostly leetcord easy and medium. Had a question from array prefix sum and another from a string. Technical round had 2-3 DSA questions from stack, and hashmaps were i had to write the pseudocode and explain it. The interviewer also asked me an aptitude puzzle. After these he dived into my resume and asked questions from there.
Managerial round was pretty basic and was asked further questions from my resume
