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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They had me do a 4-hour digital interview where I answered three coding questions and they filmed me responding to personal questions. After I completed the interview, I received an email stating that I would be contacted by an IBM representative, but I never was.

Questions

Given an input of employee names and their managers (e.g., John reports to Mary), create a way to search for the closest common manager given two employees who are having a conflict.

Given a paragraph of sentences, output the sentence that contains all other sentences. Ignore case and characters that are not letters.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 363 interview experiences for the IBM Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

39%
Pass Rate

IBM's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive53%
Neutral33%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for IBM's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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