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Interviewed May 2011 in Littleton, MA (took 2 weeks)

I received an email that said they wanted to set up an initial phone screening. The initial phone screening was normal HR questions (i.e. Why IBM? Where do you see yourself in five years?). Then about 2 days later I had a phone interview with several different teams asking questions like how to update an immutable string in JAVA. Basically they wanted to know how JAVA dealt with Strings. What was a closure and why is it useful in JavaScript? Then they did an IQ test online.

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What is a closure and how is it useful?

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If you had no measuring tools how would you estimate how many ping pong balls would fit in a school bus?

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

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Interviewed Mar 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)

I got a message from a hiring manager in IBM that he selected me from thousands of resume and would like to talk to me in phone. Then we set up a phone interview about half week later.

Then the manage came and chatted with me about half an hour. The talk was mainly about my past project experience on my resume. After that, he asked me to go to IBM SVL to see their lead.

In SVL I met their project lead and talk about half hour. He introduced their project and ask me some questions about my experience that matched their project technology. what I can remember is some technilogy about JAVA, Jboss and JMS. My answer of Jboss part was bad, I guess that's the reason why I was rejected.

Then about half week later I got a rejection letter. I felt a little surprise since I talked happily with IBM guys and I haven't been asked to a technical interview yet.

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Tell me your experience of using Jboss?

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

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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Beaver, OR (took a day)

They ask about reserve a linked list, some basic C questions including inline functions, static and non static, difference between new and allocate in C