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Updated May 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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BPM Consultant at IBM
Posted Sep 13, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Austin, TX (took 1+ week)
The entire process is very organized. The inital phone call is from HR for screening; next phone call is for Technial interview, and within 15 minutes there was an invitation to do an on-site interview.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Storage at IBM
Posted Aug 12, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Austin, TX (took a day)
Personable team and hiring manager- The technical interview questions are more on the easier side
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Reason for Declining
Rate was too low
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Graduate Intern at IBM
Posted Jul 21, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in Austin, TX (took 2 weeks)
The interview process was quite easy. I applied online via the IBM job board. I few weeks later I was contacted via email and scheduled a phone interview. I was interviewed by the PM who I ended up working with. THe phone interview was simply a background bio on my education and previous work experience. No technical interview, however I did have a Masters Degree at the time and was a PhD candidate.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Intern at IBM
Posted Nov 23, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2007 in Austin, TX (took 3 weeks)
The internship interview process was relatively smooth. The first stage involves a screening interview that lasts about 30 minutes. Questions asked are along the lines of: What do you think about when you are puting together a presentation? Describe some projects that you worked on with a team? What was your role? The next phase includes a semi-rigorous technical interview lasting 90 minutes, by phone. My questions included a range of questions about the Java programming language, including specifics like how to structure try/catch/finally blocks an when to apply design patterns for different situations. There was also at least one algorithmic question about how to recover the original order of a list after its elements had been randomized, but I don't remember details. Finally there were questions about how I would handle certain situations if I were managing a team (a developer is having problems, not contributin, throws team off from target deadline, what do you do)?
After the tech interview, I had to take the "IPATO" test, an "information processing aptitude test". You never learn what your score is, but you do hear that if it is below a certain point, even if the other interviews went well you will not get an offer. This had happened to a few potential candidates. With the IPATO test passed, I then interviewed twice with a project team and from there it was smooth sailing. The internship was terrific, and I'd say that the summer was one long interview for a full time position. At the end of the summer, different product teams and managers would interview interns, usually in an informational style without tests or extensive problem-solving. Interest and background match were more important in these situations.
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Negotation was smooth and the folks who offered me the position were open. Since i was a student living in an urban area, I didn't own a car and used this to motivate a request for a higher starting bonus. They doubled the starting bonus. I also asked for about 8K more in salary and was given 3K more. For a first position, this wasn't bad to me. Also, I needed time to finish my program and they were very flexible with the start date. I was pretty happy with the way everything was handled.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at IBM
Posted Oct 21, 2009 — 0 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2009 in Austin, TX (took 2 months)
Spoke with rep at career fair. I followed up by email to make sure they had my info. I then was emailed back and told to apply for a specific position via the website. I did that and then was phoned for an interview and then they made a decision after I sent some more info in.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Staff Software Engineer at IBM
Posted May 26, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2007 in Austin, TX (took 2 weeks)
Pretty boring, straightforward behavioral questions with very little technical depth. The culture was pretty professional and stuffy, not a place where younger people would be interested in working. The manager was not technical and the technical staff was not that skilled. I would personally think it is hard to get top technical talent and filter them out with these interviews
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Systems Administration at IBM
Posted Apr 29, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 in Austin, TX (took 4 days)
I received a call from an IBM recruiter to see if I was still interested in the position and able to interview. He said the hiring manager would call for an initial interview. When the manager called, it was very informal with no technical or job skills related questions aside from where I had worked in the past. He had me contact the outgoing system administrator to setup an interview the next interview. The second interview consisted of a facility tour and showing me my office -no interview questions. That person was under the impression that I had already accepted the position.
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Reason for Declining
The outgoing administrator expressed a high degree of frustration not being allowed to fix potential problems, just to respond to problems as they happened. On call 7X24 with a usual 55 hour work week.
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