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IBM Trainee Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 4 Dec 2023

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Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 30 Nov 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Personal Interview 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell us about yourself
  • Ans. 

    I am a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a strong desire to learn and grow in the trainee role.

    • I have recently completed my Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

    • During my studies, I gained practical experience through internships at two different companies.

    • I have excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

    • I am a quick learner and adapt well to new environments.

    • I am highly organized and detail-o...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why do you want to join us?
  • Ans. 

    I want to join because I am passionate about the industry and believe this company offers great opportunities for growth and learning.

    • Passionate about the industry

    • Opportunities for growth and learning

    • Believe in the company's values and mission

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. About your plan for further studies
  • Ans. If you plan to pursue studies ahead, try to negotiate the timings with them and be considerate and subtle. Don't be too fixed on something, there should always be room for adaptability.
  • Answered Anonymously

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, don't be nervous. Express yourself as much as you can because if you don't, you'll keep thinking about it and feel negative which u do not wish for yourself and your bright future.

Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 4 Dec 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. All concepts of oops and java
  • Q2. All about sql and plsql

Interview Preparation Tips

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Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Aug 2022

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basic aptitude questions related to speed, distance, volume, percentage.

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Basic coding questions to test your knowledge about strings, mathematical operations.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Work on your coding aptitude & coding skills to get selected

Interview questions from similar companies

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before May 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Numerical ability and logical reasoning followed by some coding mcqs

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Print 1 to 100 without for loop
  • Ans. 

    Printing 1 to 100 without for loop

    • Use recursion to print numbers from 1 to 99

    • Print 100 outside the recursion

    • Use a base case to stop recursion at 100

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare from interview bit and practice mcqs

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Simple aptitude test

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General questions as per your cv

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Infosys System Engineer interview:
  • Aptitude
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Great company for freshers.. lot to learn and experience

I appeared for an interview before Feb 2021.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Time - 60mins

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Time- 30mins

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Was easy to crack, Coding round was good

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jan 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It totally taken by TCS ion

Round 2 - Technical 
Round 3 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
  • Q2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q3. Tell me about yourself.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep all your technical skills up to date

I appeared for an interview in May 2017.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Selected for round 2

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Selected for round 2
Duration: 15 minutes

Skills: Communication
College Name: SJRCW

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: English skill based test, it was more like a basic clearance test. There were two different rounds one of them was to listen/read and then fill up questions (approx. 45min) other one was the Telephonic test (computer generated test, approx. 15min).
Tips: Aptitude is a must, so practise
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Here the way you interact in a group and essence of your points. Personally I felt that they didn’t concentrate much on speaking skills as such.
Tips: Practise to talk in groups, current affairs  and even random topics
Duration: 15 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I was tested on basic understanding of Big Data and tested on enthusiasm
Tips: Puzzles (for most startups) and HR & resume based for others mostly.prepare things very much related to the company.

Skill Tips: Starting earlier helps . Aptitude requires some time and it is better to start atleast during summer vacation. Last two months before placements can be spent for other preparations.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: I performed well in the written test, and there was a speaking and listening test too.  I felt quant was most important for the tests, fast mathematics, then technical questions. Technical questions generally asked by core companies. Some programming based companies also ask such technical questions.



Puzzles can help you in answering quant questions also. The tests were mostly MCQ. Some tests were there which had subjective question papers. None of the core companies had subjective type, but coding companies had such questions. 





They were write a program to do *task* type questions. The programming language to write the code in, was our choice. The language options were C, C++, Python, Java. Python was rarely asked, though.
Duration: 3 hours minutes

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Don't quite actually remember those topics. But, skills they wanted to test was to see how well they were able to express their ideas, but without outwardly disrupting others while talking.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was at least 40 minutes, with 5 minutes of HR interview for my current work profile. 

The HR usually starts with “Tell me about yourself”. Then they go through the resume, and ask about the project (DDP, in my case) and internship. This was done by the HR team, just to see how the candidate is putting forth his ideas and contributions clearly.
Tips: Since I cleared the tests, I was allowed to appear for the interviews, but after that, the CGPA played a major role in the final selection. Hence people with low CGPA had to perform exceptionally well to compensate for the low CGPA. However, I don’t know of the internal mechanism of shortlisting, so I was of the opinion that CGPA did not result in elimination of candidates, (except for the candidates who were eliminated due to the cutoff CGPA). But it played a role in the final selection.

For managerial positions, PoRs like coordships, coreships etc can be used to pitch your leadership qualities. They can start a chain of conversation that involves the work you did, on how you managed to execute the task efficiently, which ends up working in your favour.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Two puzzles were given in the interview. I did well in both, hence got selected. Another puzzle was to measure 45 minutes of time elapsed by using two candles, both of which take 1 hour to burn out completely.

General Tips: I was weak in thermodynamics, so he covered that course revision, for core placements. I prepared from the material sent by Shruti. That was all I prepared. The Coursera for R language was not that useful for me as I was looking for a managerial position.In case of resume shortlists, students who had done management, operations research or economics courses were preferred.
Otherwise, one has to justify your selection through good pitching. Finance companies are sort of open minded; they are looking for people who would do the job. Anyways, they will be providing training, so the knowledge in finance gained through independent means is not quite significant. It will, however, give an edge in the tests, as finance and quant based questions will be asked. They won’t go deep info finance.
I also suggest to freshies and second years to complete the core credited intern in the second year itself so that they can take up an intern of their choice, be it either research intern or core intern in their 3rd year summer. It offers much greater flexibility to the students. It will be useful, especially for non-core placements. I started preparing for the interviews late. I did not put pen to paper, to write down his answer for the ice-breaking questions like “Introduce yourself”. It would be better to write those answers down and get them polished, rather than trying to remember it and/or make it up spontaneously.
Skill Tips: For handling pressure, I suggest that after the interviews are over, just eat and get a good night’s sleep. Preparing/analyzing about the performance in the interview would only make you more anxious, affects sleep, and this would affect your performance in the interviews the next day. The additional one hour of preparation is not going to make a big difference.
Skills: Speaking Ability, Ability to express your ideas, Capable of managing things efficiently
College Name: IIT MADRAS

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