Associate Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 89% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Systems Engineer roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 92 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a Associate Systems Engineer according to 92 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 14%
Background check: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 8%
Drug test: 4%
Phone interview: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at IBM (Cochin)
Interview
It was a mix of formal and informal interview..with questions being asked from the internship,projects...and also some personal questions like ....it was a mix of HR and PI. The interview was one on one and it lasted for about 29 min.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
It was great ez they asked me pretty basic stuff such as palindrome and string manipulation and the interviewer was a bit frank with me he and i did some chit chat for a bit as occured that we were from same town
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The one thing that they asked me was what technology are u familiar with that IBM uses
The process was okay but the result of the interview took so much time. NO reply to the mails as well. interview was offline and has 3 different rounds. one language round, then coding round and then interview.
First round was a language round that was conducted online. We were asked multiple simple questions in English to test our listening, speaking and reading skills. The next round was a coding assessment round. We were shown two questions of easy-medium level difficulty from the competitive coding website Hacker Rank. The 3rd round was a behavioral assessment round where we were given 5 questions and for each question we were allotted 5 mins to answer before the system automatically submits and goes to the next question. The questions were similar to "Explain about a situation where your leadership allowed for a problem to be solved" etc. The last round was the interview round where they asked both technical and non technical questions. The technical questions that were asked where from the projects we have made that were noted down on our resumes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the reason why you used that python library A over python library B and how would you implement that reasoning into your future career at IBM if accepted?