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      Graduate Software Developer Interview

      Dec 7, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience

      Other Graduate Software Developer Interview Reviews for IBM

      Graduate Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 24, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Hursley, England
      No offer
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM in Dec 2024

      Interview

      Made it as far as the Online Assessment. Two questions only, so pretty fair in that regard, but it meant that 50% of my assessment was contingent on my knowing a lot of SQL queries, which I don't really use past DDL since everything is usually done through the ORM apart from sanity checks, but this SQL question was much more involved than that. I'll also add that SQL wasn't mentioned in the job description I applied for. In the coding question, I couldn't figure out what they actually wanted. I keep reading how other people had questions that were easy or at least straight forward, but the one I had didn't make sense even in the examples they gave and was written rather obtusely. So I was left trying to figure things out from the context of the input arguments and tests. I think I would have figured it out given more time, but 50 minutes and under pressure... Anyway, it was HackerRank, so always remember to hit "submit" whenever you make progress, I forgot to do that after making significant progress on the SQL question. Maybe brush up on your SQL as far as filtering and grouping, calculations and decimal places.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You have several servers that can take in a given number of requests. The server capacity and server requests are given to you in arrays (was actually lists). Three of the servers can be upgraded to double capacity. Return the number of servers or capacity left over or something, it wasn't clear. My best guess is they wanted the minimum capacity of the servers that would cover the entirety of the requests (so assume a cloud scenario where you could have unlimited compute but at a cost), but they didn't say that. The SQL question involved joining two tables, then adding another column which is the result of a calculation, then filtering and arranging that new column, and reducing it to two decimal places.
      Answer question
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Hursley, England) in Aug 2025

      Interview

      Asked various theoretical questions, mostly focusing on things to do with data. Asked questions about efficiency and how you would ensure it, as well as asking what experience I had with testing

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They asked about my experience with testing
      Answer question
      1

      Graduate Software Engineer Interview

      May 11, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at IBM

      Interview

      1 hour behaviour + 1 hour technical. very lovely and positive experience. Introduced the comapny overview, the position and their background. 1 hour behaviour + 1 hour technical. very lovely and positive experience. Introduced the comapny overview, the position and their background.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is overriding and overloading in Java
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      Graduate Software Developer Interview

      Feb 20, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at IBM (Dublin, Dublin)

      Interview

      1st round - phone call 2nd and 3rd round- Technical and behavioural, managerial. It was 3hr long. They asked me about difference between class and Interface, and some code snippet like what is wrong with this code.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is wrong in this code snippet? and some technical questions on OOPs
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