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Software Developer Interview Experience - Bengaluru, India

April 1, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Worst nonsense. She just passed time without looking at my resume. She asked encyclopedia-unrelated questions. They called me for an interview, but the panel wasn't there, so I had a telephonic interview in the IBM office itself. "Who is your scrum master?" Such stupid questions were asked.

Questions

I went for an interview on April 6th, 2018. I had a very dissatisfying interview experience, which has changed my expectations about an organization like IBM. I am not expressing my concerns as a "Not selected" candidate, rather as someone who likes to take the positives from all my interviews and move forward.

The interviewer focused on asking questions unrelated to my work experience and interests. Later on, it was evident that she did not have my resume, which might have led to a completely different prospect.

Conclusively, I honestly feel that I wasted an hour of my time off work, as I have nothing positive to take away from today.

The best joke was: I told her I have worked in WPF, WCF, Web API, SSRS, and SQL, and then she asked again, "It means you have not worked in C# and ASP.NET?"

  1. At least the interviewer should have technical knowledge. They should be able to understand the basics, e.g., if someone is working in WPF, it means that person is working in .NET C#, so there should not be a stupid question from the interviewer's side like, "Then you have not worked in C#.NET."
  2. Please tell the person who takes the interview to have the resume with them and don't just Google and ask questions which she herself doesn't know.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 55 interview experiences for the IBM Software Developer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Success Rate

38%
Pass Rate

IBM's interview process for their Software Developer roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive80%
Neutral15%
Negative5%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for IBM's Software Developer interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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