I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in July 2024
Interview
two technical rounds they conducted
first technical was easy, asked core java based questions and some scenarios on project
second technical round was bit tough, interviewer not at all kind and he was not interested to listen answers at all. felt like he is just doing formality
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first round technical questions: hashmap, arraylist,try catch block based questions, metrix program to solve
-second technical: rest api, SOLID principal, Kubernetes, Kafka , dependency injection
-one program to on string "55554444333122 from this string need to find middle element and freq. o/p expected : 3 :3
There was a single behavioral interview offered by a different department after applying to 2 different positions and doing Hackerranks for them. Basic questions about projects on your resume and experience and the recruiters were nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a creative way that you solved a problem.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (Pune) in Nov 2025
Interview
First Round - Aptitude (one coding question and API development )
Second Round - Interview
Asked project related questions, computer fundamentals, DSA questions,
DSA Questions - target sum, kth max in array (priority queue)
I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at IBM (Hyderābād) in Nov 2025
Interview
they asked about projects and one simple coding question in different ways. Reducing time and space complexity , then asked about dbms and asked can you write queries or not .