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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      20 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM

      Interview

      All my interviewers were super cool and from the questions asked I was qute happy that I am going to the right team. However, there was an equally bad experience on the hiring recruiting front. Poor/infrequent/no communication unless it is must required from their side. Just don't expect response to email or phone calls. Multiple goof ups in terms of interview process: rounds agenda/sequence changes multiple times. e.g. Asked to skip a lunch/errand slot; but they went ahead and reschedule something in same window, without validating front candidate. Multiple times failed to walk the talk; candidate was put in an frustating waiting loop; overall interview last for multiple months. Doesn;t matter; whether interviewer is immediately avaialble and ready to finish interviews and join in overall 1-2 week. They simply don't care about organisation; just their day-2-day task; that too seems forceful. Poor experience. I will be careful in choosing team/hiring-manager , if I apply again. As IBM is a huge organisation; It's hard to generalise the experience to organisation; there might be few bad apples in Recruiting cycle.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Project/related-technology/scenario based discussion Take home assignment coding/system-design/assignment review.
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      7 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
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      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

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      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Mar 2026

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      26 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
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      very good, didn't face major hurdles in my interview. first round is online second round is at office completed all remaining rounds on same day. Delay from HR on response to the position.

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      8 Dec 2025
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