Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Austin, TX) in May 2025
Interview
It was a panel interview with 3 people. They asked about my job experience. Also asked me a few hypotheticals to see my method of operation in a test debug situation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you identify the cause of bimodality in test data?
The interview process at IBM
was smooth and straightforward. The technical discussion mainly focused on SQL join queries between two tables, along with a general conversation about AI and Generative AI concepts. The interviewers were friendly, and the overall difficulty level of the round was easy to moderate.
I applied online without referrals
First OA with 2 coding questions, medium to hard level, 1 hour time limit
Then 5 online recorded behavior questions, only 1 try, no retries
Next round is meeting the hiring manager and a senior engineer in the team