IBM

SSD Firmware Software Engineer Interview Experience - Houston, Texas

January 1, 2018

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewing process happened randomly for me. I was called after I had decided to crash a job fair at FSU, having applied for a position at the company three times and not been considered.

I was contacted directly by the SSD firmware team manager. We had a quick conversation, and then she set me up to interview with two of the team leads.

Questions

I was asked to program in C while the team lead watched.

It was a straightforward process.

The problem given was some string manipulation using the string library.

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IBM's interview process for their SSD Firmware Software Engineer roles in Houston, Texas is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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