I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Frankfurt am Main) in Apr 2025
Interview
Had a call with two senior employees, both really nice asked me why IBM, resume and what are my weaknesses. Overall relaxed atmosphere and very pleasant. Tried to accommodate wishes for internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your weaknesses?
What IBM products do you know?
sent online application to all applicants immediately after applying, did not take very long to complete, gets back to you pretty quickly, fairly typical for swe internship interviews + OA in terms of difficulty
I got the situational interview. I had prepared for questions about like how will I debug AI-related issues, what will I do when things break etcetera but they asked more like, how will you make all team members feel included, how will you communicate with non-technical stakeholders etcetera. Also I felt one of the questions they asked me was based on the answer of a previous question that they wanted to dig further into.