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Posted Feb 23, 2012 2012-02-23 12:15 PST — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
No Offer – Interviewed in Hursley, England (UK) Feb 2012 – Reviewed Feb 23, 2012
Interview Details –
Applied to the Extreme Blue internship online after a chat with a company representative at a careers fair. The application consisted of filling in an IBM CV form which had various wordy questions on adaptability, teamwork, communication, achievements, problem solving, technical skills etc. This was in November. In January I was invited to do the IPAT online test which consisted of logic/math questions that have to be answered quite quickly. I would rate it as a difficult test compared to what other companies have in their online tests.
I passed that and was invited to an Assessment Day down in Hursley (all expenses paid) together with about 12 other people. We had to do a shorter (and easier) version of the IPAT test to make sure that we didn't cheat in the original. Then there was a group task that involved making sense of bits of information that were given to us and solving a riddle. After that we took a Software Engineering Aptitude Test, which was essentially another logic test (don't worry if your programming skills are rusty or non-existent, you'll do fine if you like logic/math).
We also had a site tour, which was really interesting. Generally I had a great day and very enjoyable experience at IBM.
Two days later they sent me an email saying that I had passed the first stage assessment day but that does not necessarily mean that I will be invited to the second stage (which apparently consists of a one to one interview) due to the fact that they may have already filled all the available places for the internship. Haven't heard from them since.
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Other Details - I applied online and the process took 2 months.
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