The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM in Mar 2011
Interview
I sent my CV for a position of intern in Business Performance Services, it's like internal consulting, as they don't hire other consulting firms. I had 3 1:1 interviews. They went through my CV and asked questions: case (estimate market of office buildings in Moscow; explain why company has decreasing income, while number of clients is growing (company is of course IT)), some simple problems on probability with coins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the least square where you can play sea battle? It is a game with 2 players and sea is represented by large square and ships of different sizes by different number of little squares
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM in Apr 2009
Interview
The interview is mainly on my research experience. I introduced my previous research project experience. And the interviewer asked a lot of details, ranging from idea, architecture, implementation to experimental results. The interviewer introduced their proposed project and the responsibility in finishing this project. Overall, the interview is very pleasant.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM in Jan 2010
Interview
Went through initial phone screening and was then asked to come into central office for interview. Interview consisted of one case and one behaivoral interview. The case was very straight forward and went smoothely
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What would you do if you were asked to help a client but the client refused to give you any information.