I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Littleton, MA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied online and was contacted a few weeks later by the hiring manager. He called me and asked me questions about my resume, including questions about teamwork experience and things such as that. Afterwards, I was emailed about setting up an on-site interview. They flew me out to their location a few weeks later and I met with the hiring manager, a software engineer that I would possibly work with and a project manager who would most likely end up being my boss. The hiring manager didn't ask me that many questions since he had already talked to me before. The software engineer asked me some technical questions (write a method that does this etc.) and some OOP conceptual questions (what would this program do, etc.). The project manager asked me more in-depth questions about my resume, including how well I work with others and such (the typical behavioral questions). A couple weeks later, they emailed me an offer and I accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method that determines if a string is a palindrome.
Know OOP concepts such as inheritance.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY) in Jan 2016
Interview
I was referred by my friend who has interned in IBM. Before that I already submitted my CV to their online recruitment system, but I seriously doubt there's any use of it.
There's a 1 hour phone screen with 2 interviewers at the same time. They asked some simple coding and behavioral questions. After that they're interested enough to invite me to on-site interview, but I still have to push them a bit because my other interviews were around the corner and I had to schedule them quick.
I was invited to the IBM Watson office. At IBM almost every employee has a separated office room, so I just met every interviewer at his own office. The interview started early and there're about 8 interviewers (I lost count and they didn't send me the schedule either), each last for 1 hour except the one who took me to lunch, so the entire process is actually quite tiring.
1 week later I sent a follow-up mail to the HR but only got silence. Then after another 2 weeks I sent another follow-up mail to the manager and some interviewers and finally heard from them that I'm no longer considered.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Almost every interviewer asked me to introduce my background and previous works, and then pick the part he's interested in to go further. Besides that, only 1 interviewer asked me algorithm question, and maybe 2 asked questions about C++ language; all the remaining are general behavioral questions.
There's 1 interview with 2 interviewers from security department. I assume it's some kind of security measure since they obviously have fewer professional background.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Austin, TX) in Jan 2016
Interview
One phone screening with hiring manager, and then another phone interview with a member of the team. After that they send me th IPAT test. After one one week I got an offer for an onsite interview. The process was good and mostly about check your personality. Very basic Algorithms and Data structure questions and C++. Offer came after 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Polymorfism, keywords in C++, basic graph traversals