IBM Intern - Software Engineer interview questions
Updated Jun 6, 2026
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I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Lowell, MA) in Dec 2025
Interview
First round was a HackerRank with two LeetCode mediums, then after a week or two, I got an invitation to a meeting online. The interview was mainly behavioral and was a deep dive into my resume and projects.
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How did you decide on your tech stack for your projects?
Why IBM?
whats your favorite frontend library?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM (Lowell, MA) in Nov 2024
Interview
HackerRank followed by chat with current engineers. My interview was not technical, although other interns I spoke to said theirs were. It is also team dependent, so I guess my team wasn't doing technical interviews.
Online assessment which had two leetcode easy/medium problems. Then an interview with two engineers that has a mix of behavioural resume questions as well as technical find the bug/maybe a whiteboard coding problem