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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Interview consists of 4rounds.
1round is aptitude.
2nd round is technical written.
3rd round is group discussion(They expect candidate who can speak boldly infront of others not much)
4th round is technical 1:1 , it last for more than one hour.It was all about general programming concepts.
5th round is HR. Puzzles and simple programs(fibo)

Interview Questions

Write fibonaci series.

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Flow cart for a ATM machine

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 in Colombo (Sri Lanka) (took 1+ week)

There were 3 interview steps.Two peoples firstly interviewd me.Interview consisted with asking question related to my basic working areas and how i fitted for those areas.As well my paper qualification and whay did yu choosed this jobs and how much i suited for this new offer.Secondly same kind of interview was held.Final interview was about my expectation on salary and other benifits.

Interview Questions

What can you do If you faced with annoyed customer who asking about the current software failure and rejecting to retain this sytem futher as well going to cancel purched order.

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Negotiation Details

I requested some huge amount for salary . They offers 80% from it.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2009 in Kolkata (India) (took a day)

Written is there ..then panel intv .. basic questions on languages written on CV

Interview Questions

What is binary tree in C

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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 Oct 2010 (took 1 week)

I applied for a position via the IBM website. About ten days later the hiring manager called and talked to me briefly about my resume and my interest. We then scheduled two technical phone interviews. The phone interviews were very technical but informal. We went over what was on my resume and they asked technical questions to gauge my knowledge/competency. They were good tough questions, no gotchas and no asking really obscure stuff. They just expected you to be able to backup your stated experience with knowledge that someone with that experience should have gained. After nailing the phone interviews, I was scheduled for on onsite interview the next week. I met the hiring manager and two more on the technical team. Again the interview was highly technical but relaxed. After the technical component, I met 1:1 with the hiring manager to go into details about the position and what was expected. I think a couple of personality test questions were asked but nothing really stands out.

Two days later my references called to let me know they had been contacted by the hiring manager.
A week after the onsite interview, I was contacted by HR and given a link and directions on how to fill out a formal application/security questionare for the background checks.

Another two weeks later I received a formal job offer.

The entire process from the first call from the hiring manager to the completion of the background checks and extention of a job offer took about four weeks.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to work for IBM?

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Negotiation Details

We had discussed salary during the final 1:1 with the hiring manager and, without promising anything, I was told they would see what they could do to match that salary. The offer matched what I was asking for so I didn't have to negotiate.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2008 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Following are process i went through
1.They conducted Written Test which was having analytical question as well as Technical question
2.After selection in Written test, it was Technical round of interview.
3. After selection in Technical round, it was HR round of interveiw.

Interview Questions

Why you want to join IBM

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2008 (took a day)

There is one technical round will be there, it will through by telephonic or face to face, once you gone through that process, Manager round will be there and you have to attend this face to face, then every thing went fine you will get the offer with in 2weeks.

Interview Questions

Mostly they will ask about your language basics along with scenarios how you can solve it, its mostly depend on your Resume what you have written

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Other Details

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2008 (took 11 months)

You should prepare well for technical round. If it is clear, then u r almost in.

Interview Questions

Describe a program which can choose the shortest path among few paths between two points.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2008 in Pune (India) (took a day)

It was good experience. Tech part was well discussed in Telecom. It lasted for 30 minutes. Oracle and Unix comprised the tech part. Telecom Billing was the main part of dicussion in functional domain. Billing systems, Provisioning, Rating was discussed. He was happy to see my profile. I was sent for HR round. It lasted for 20 min. salary part was discussed and negotiated on 4.5 L pa plus variable part for my 5 yr exp.