I applied through university. I interviewed at IBM (Bangalore Rural) in Jan 2025
Interview
The interview process was part of my college placement. It began with a DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) round, which consisted of medium-level coding questions and lasted for 1 hour. After clearing that, there was a communication assessment that tested basic English skills. I was shortlisted for the final round, which started with a relatively easy aptitude test.
Following that, there was a communication and writing test to assess cognitive and verbal abilities, and then a group discussion to evaluate teamwork and speaking skills. The final stage was a technical interview conducted by two interviewers, where they asked about my projects and basic technical concepts. About a month later, I received an offer from the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1.Explain the projects you’ve done and your role in them.
Q2: Basic DSA questions (e.g., array manipulation, string problems).
Q3: What technologies are you comfortable with?
Q4: What would you do if you were stuck during coding?
Q5: Group Discussion Topic: “Is AI a threat or a tool?”
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?
