IBM

It was okay. They took me to the back and asked lots of technical questions, but I didn't know the answer to all of them. I was still hoping they would give me the job, but sadly they didn't.

IBM started with a few initial emails: confirmations of interest and something about export validation. Then it went quiet for a few weeks before I was contacted out of the blue for a coding challenge – a web-based, non-monitored (but timed) coding

It was a lengthy process. First, they had you do a coding test. Then came the IBM IPAT Test. This second test was the harder part, in my opinion. You were given only 45 seconds for each question. Although some questions were fairly easy, there were