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Updated Apr 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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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.

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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

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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.

Interview Questions

Write code to tell how you would seperate decimal digits from an integer.

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Describe how you would tell whether a point is within a n sided polygon?

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took 2 days)

Applied online. Got called up and scheduled for interview. Met with the manager and senior developer. Was asked the normal suite of textbook questions, then behavioural.

Manager asked me to describe a chicken in Java.

Senior developer asked 2 to 3 challenging technical questions that bridged C++ to Java, mostly design and architectural.

Interview Questions

Describe a chicken in Java

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 weeks)

I had a phone interview about 1 hours long. Only one person interviewed me. He asked me technical questions, questions about my research, courses I have taken, what all interests me, demonstrated leadership experience (co-curricular activities). Technical questions were on database, data structures, distributed computing and networks. He asked a lot about my research (even undergrad) and what all I learned from my courses. He also asked whether I am comfortable with giving presentations etc.

After the long phone round I also had to take their online aptitude test IPATO. It was quiet easy and not long (45 min in all). After 3 weeks of waiting I was offered the job.

Interview Questions

How would you serve hundreds/thousands of clients requesting server/database resources when you have only one server? What algorithm, technique and points to keep in mind.

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How to check stack overflows?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2007 in Markham, ON (Canada) (took 2 weeks)

The interview consists of 3 round, 2 phone interviews, one with the manager and one with the team lead, the other one is a one on one technical interview. To get the Job in IBM, you need to fit their culture and values. Talk positive and speak loud and confident. But do not bogus.

Interview Questions

The job requires knowledge and experience in mainframe, which you don't have, why you think you can still do this job?

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compiler optimization problem

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Negotiation Details

Salary, vacation days.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.

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Yes | No

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