I applied through university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at IBM (Hyderābād) in Feb 2017
Interview
pool campus drive
1. written test( quants + numberseries + business communication)
2. technical + hr
1. In written test there are 18 questions on quants, 18 on number series and 22 questions on english.
time given is 2 min 15 sec per question in quants & number series and 20 mins for all 22 questions in
business communication(English). There are more than 800 appeared for the test and only 80(nearly) members cleared the round. The people who cleared the round was called on next day for
tr + hr.
2. interview is very easy to clear. As almost 90% of the students not cleared the first round only 10% are there for interview. There is no time so they combined both technical and hr rounds. They asked basic hr round questions like "tell me about yourself", "tell me about your project", "what is sql", "what is diff between sql and dbms", "basic java questions on jvm, jdk, datatypes", "why ibm". I answered these simple questions confidently and effectively.
After interview they took our biometric finger prints. After 3 days i got confirmation mail. I got selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are not much difficult questions asked. Almost 80-90% of the people who cleared the first round got selected. my advice to the students who goes to such interviews in college is just speak well and present your self in a well communicative manner.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
It was great ez they asked me pretty basic stuff such as palindrome and string manipulation and the interviewer was a bit frank with me he and i did some chit chat for a bit as occured that we were from same town
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The one thing that they asked me was what technology are u familiar with that IBM uses
The process was okay but the result of the interview took so much time. NO reply to the mails as well. interview was offline and has 3 different rounds. one language round, then coding round and then interview.
First round was a language round that was conducted online. We were asked multiple simple questions in English to test our listening, speaking and reading skills. The next round was a coding assessment round. We were shown two questions of easy-medium level difficulty from the competitive coding website Hacker Rank. The 3rd round was a behavioral assessment round where we were given 5 questions and for each question we were allotted 5 mins to answer before the system automatically submits and goes to the next question. The questions were similar to "Explain about a situation where your leadership allowed for a problem to be solved" etc. The last round was the interview round where they asked both technical and non technical questions. The technical questions that were asked where from the projects we have made that were noted down on our resumes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the reason why you used that python library A over python library B and how would you implement that reasoning into your future career at IBM if accepted?