Large Enterprises
Most of these IBM write-ups come from Software Engineers (32), then Data Scientists (6) and Product Managers (1). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (25), the online assessment (10), the hiring manager screen (1) and the behavioral / leadership round (1).
39 interview notes · updated Oct 2026
“Passed all the test cases so I guess it went fine.”
“Not too bad once I figured out what they were actually asking.”
“This wrecked me.”
“The first question was fine, pretty standard stuff.”
“Got most of the cases but hit a TLE I couldn't shake.”
“Passed most test cases on this one, which felt fine at the time.”
“No details shared about the specific problem, just that it was greedy-based.”
“I jumped straight to a sliding window and got something working for 'at least k' before realizing the question said 'exactly.' Had to backtrack and rethink the shrink logic.”
“Started fine, explained that it's when two or more features are highly linearly related and that it inflates coefficient variance.”
“Not too bad once I stopped overthinking the setup and just mapped out the relationships.”
Candidates most often report a technical phone screen (25 write-ups), an online assessment (10), a hiring manager screen (1) and a behavioral / leadership round (1).
Across 25 technical phone screen write-ups, the most tagged question topics are Technical Trade-offs (23 questions), Algorithms & Data Structures (15) and System Design (15).
Across 10 online assessment write-ups, the most tagged question topics are Algorithms & Data Structures (10 questions), Root Cause Analysis (6) and API & Integrations (5).