IBM

Easy. A few questions were asked about architecture decisions, technical concepts, as well as language-specific questions. After that, there were some behavioral questions, and questions about previous work, experience, and side projects.

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