I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Chennai) in Apr 2010
Interview
On- Campus interview
First is a 3 stage written test, followed by Group discussion
Finally there is the F2F technical interview of 2 rounds. It covered almost all topics from c, c++, data structures, java, j2ee, unix commands, SQL etc.
Also, a brief explanation of "everything" that is put on the resume of course :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not much difficult questions. all were straight forward.
what is a B tree? What is difference between B tree and B+ tree?
Find the nth max or min of a columns sum aggregate from a table grouped by a condition like name or studentId etc..
Ways of parsing and validating Xml files?
What is parity bit in Unix? Explain what the "sed" command do.