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Updated Sep 30, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 2 days)

I was contacted by them shortly after graduating. There were technical as well as regular interviews. Everyone was very friendly. They admitted to it being a job that you'd have to dedicate a lot to. My biggest advice to those like me, with no industry experience is to have as much enthusiasm as you can during the interviews.

Interview Questions

Some technical questions that have to do with technologies a fresh graduate can't have experience with yet.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Drug Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2011 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took a day)

I applied for internship position at IBM and got an interview call from the manager. but before that i was asked to write an IPATO test which is not technical at all but it just judges ur aptitude. Most of the students do well in test, It appears hard but i think cut off is very low.

Interview itself was telephonic and all behavioural. Manager was very mature and experienced. She asked me all about my resume and projects and my role in different projects. and how i fulfilled them. No technical question at all.
So make sure u r writng ur resume very thoroughly. she was pretty impressed with me and I even asked her for a feedback which was positive.

I am waiting to hear from them and I guess IBM is a pretty good company to start a career with.

All the best to you all who are aplying.

Interview Questions

Questions related to my projects. Like What was my role in this project?
What data structures I used. etc

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How would you describe a leader ?
How do you handle conflicts etc

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 (took a day)

the interview was not very difficult. Have to be good on the work you have done. Max questions will come from the things specified in the resume only.

Interview Questions

how to create a cursor

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took a day)

Submit my resume online and get an phone interview. 5 people asked a lot of questions , all technical, no thing from my resume.

Interview Questions

what is the difference between linklist and arraylist?

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 4 weeks)

The manager asked me the questions and explained the position to me. The questions given were:

Difference between Process and Threads
What is a Thread
Heaps vs Stack
What is Dynamic Programming.
What is a binary tree

The manager assured me that the position was a developer despite my reservations. The compensation offered was a significant drop from my last position for which I had an offer as well, so it did not make sense to go ahead with this one, despite it being at IBM.

Interview Questions

What is difference between Process and Thread

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Reason for Declining

It says its developer position but having talked to people from there, I realized its a bona fide tester position.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2009 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took a day)

just normal talk, no technical question or very little questions, because I have been internship student at IBM for 16 month and got an rating A, people knew me and like to work with me

Interview Questions

no difficult question for me

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Negotiation Details

no negotiation, accepted whatever manager offered me

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 (took a day)

2 rounds interviews

1st round - interviews with technical lead in the team. Asking technical question, specifically on programming skill by developing a prototype of the solution.

2nd round - interviews with manager. Asking behavioral question.

Interview Questions

Tell me about one of the challenge you encountered in your school program. And how do you handle the situation?

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took 2 weeks)

I had an interview with about 5 developers on site. They seemed to be impressed with my resume and I did not get any puzzle or problem solving type questions. We only discussed my experience.

The interview last about 6 hours. I got a callback the next week with the verbal offer. I had to accept on the spot so that put a little pressure on me. After the verbal offer I got the written offer and had to go through a bunch of paper work. It took about 2 weeks.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to work in compilers if your thesis was not about compilers?

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Negotiation Details

I was able to get the low end of what I was asking for. It is still slightly below market for a masters graduate.

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in Ottawa, ON (Canada) (took 3 weeks)

The interview Process was very smooth for me. I applied online. After applying to almost over 25 jobs I got an interview call. I had an initial Phone interview with the Human Resource. A phone interview with Department manager and a Phone interview with Team manager & IPATO test.

Interview Questions

What is your expected Salary?

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Java Inheritance and Discuss famous Dog class-subclass in context of Inheritance and Abtraction?

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Negotiation Details

The whole interview Process at IBM was very very Pleasant experience. The 1st interview with HR Coordinator(who was very nice and helpful), the second interview with Department Manager was again behavior and Technical mix. The last interview with Team Manager was highly Technical and again was very nice experience.

I was able to negotiate my terms and I would suggest all not to be shy or over sacred in negotiating terms but after you recieve your Verbal Offer.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 2 days)

I was asked initially the basics programming questions related to kernel lever device driver programming. Later on they shifted to asking questions pertaining to problem solving and puzzles like finding an easy way to tell whether a point lies within a n sided polygon.