I applied through college or university. I interviewed at IBM (Waterloo, ON) in Jun 2015
Interview
I applied from the university's job searching site, and got a webcam interview for Software Developer Intern working at projects such as IBM Bluemix.
The interviewer asks about some past experience, technical questions, and explains the role.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at IBM
Interview
I talked with one lady at a university career fair, and she had me talk to two other more technical people there before telling me that I was a pretty good candidate.
They told me to apply online, which I did. The online application process isn't the most exciting thing. It asks you a lot of questions about how many years of experience you have in each language/technology, among other strange questions.
I was contacted two days later to set up a meeting with the manager of the team that was interested in hiring me. He just gauged my interest and evaluated fit. It was a very non-technical interview.
A week later, I got an email with another (more detailed) application. It was equally boring. I also got an invitation to take an online "CAT" employment test. Basically it was a mathematics test whose results are apparently correlated to how far you will progress within IBM when you are employed. There are a few sections in the test, basic algebra questions, proportions, and patterns. Patterns was the trickiest part. You don't get your results when you finish, and my possible results still haunt me to this day.. I guess I did good enough!
After taking the test, I was also contacted by another manager who wanted to discuss employment with me.
Both managers had new hires on their teams call me to talk to me about the team and their work, and they let me ask any questions that I had.
The two managers planned a visit day where I could meet people on both teams and get a feel for the culture. The day was split 4 hours each with a lunch in the middle where I could talk to both managers at the same time.
After this day, I was given a few weeks to make my decision. I decided the team and accepted the offer. There were no technical interviews the entire time. You just have to be well-spoken enough to rock the socks off the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They really wanted to hear about your passion for software engineering. Bonus points for giving examples of doing it outside of school/work.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM in Dec 2014
Interview
Was referred by an employee and had two phone interviews. The first was with the manager. He asked basic behavioral questions, why I wanted to work at IBM, what projects I worked on, etc. The second interview was with an engineer. His main goal was to see if I could talk fluently about computer science. He asked really simple questions such as the difference between a list and a set, and we talked about python scripting. After the phone interviews I took an IQ test involving sequences and algebra.