Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 15%
Presentation: 10%
Skills test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (San Jose, CA) in May 2025
Interview
The interview was an automated online assessment where I had 45 minutes to answer two leetcode style questions. This was done on the hackerrank platform and had to be done within seven days of getting the email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions was to write a program to remove a twins within an array.
Fair. Not so difficult, everyday questions. The people were friendly. I think it would be a good place to work. I can't compare it with other interviews since this is the first one I got
I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Needham Heights, MA)
Interview
the interview process was through i met with various recruiters and team leads i did a take home test before hand and i listed about my experiences everyone was kind
i have interviewed for that role and it went well, recruiter call and round 1 technical interview and round 2 panel round and round 3 is hr, more from resume and job responsibilities