I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM (Austin, TX) in Sept 2012
Interview
Had an on campus interview which consisted of process mapping and checking code. Invited to Austin for an Onsite interview. Had 3 rounds of interviews by consultants with about 1.5 years experienced. All asked technical questions (process mapping and creating programing in pseudo code) and light behavioral questions. Received a product demonstration and was taken out to lunch. Was told after the interview that all offers had been given out but I had passed and if space opened up they would give me a call. Got an email one month later that all spots in the program were filled.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Create a program to tell you if a string was a palindrome. (show it in two ways).
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (Piscataway, NJ) in Jan 2013
Interview
Comprehensive interview with team members is a chance to show the skills and experiences that will be used to make IBM more successful and shows level of compensation that is expected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the BPM history and the development roadmap used for the role
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Austin, TX) in Oct 2011
Interview
The interview consisted of normal behavioral questions and one or two technical questions. The technical question was to write a program (in layman's terms, not necessarily using a programming language) describing how a first year geometry student could input the length of different sides of a triangle to calculate the perimeter. Other behavioral questions were very abstract, making the interview somewhat difficult.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you write a program to calculate the perimeter of a triangle.