Senior Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Systems Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 13 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 Senior Systems Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 19%
One on one interview: 19%
Background check: 19%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Drug test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in Dec 2016
Interview
I have applied for a full stack developer. All processes took place in one day. If the interview panel is not available, they can arrange it into next week.
1) Online test for Java or nodejs etc
2) technical round.
3)Manager round (salary discussion)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a feature of Java 1.8?
Core Java , collection, Spring boot , Nodejs , callback etc.
Angular architecture,life cycle hook, digest cycle,data binding ,design pattern etc
For me, there were two rounds of technical questions and one HR round. Each round is an elimination round. Usually the process completes within a couple of weeks. You might need to be patient though, and wait for them to roll out your offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how reactive programming works and details of any experience you have with it.
Spring boot related questions, Microservices, Core Java, SQL, Angular, Javascript. 2 Technical rounds, Managerial Round, and HR round. 2 Coding questions were there. It was nice experience for me. Core java concepts.
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM in Jan 2023
Interview
Hiring process was smooth.Many questions related to my current working project. The results were announced on the same day. It was a virtual interview. First technical round then PDM,after that it was a phone interview for compensation discussion.