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IBM Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 27 Mar 2025

Top IBM Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Explain how containers, docker and Kubernetes work with each other ? How do you connect to a container from public internet?
  • Q2. What are the different types of AWS services used for handling Big Data in AWS. What are the storage services used ? What are the equivalents available in Azure?
  • Q3. 1. Difference between, IBP S&OP Demand and IBP Demand. 2. What are the forecast models available in IBP S&OP Demand. 3. How to configure Product life cycle in S&a ...read more
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IBM Interview Experiences

Popular Designations

2.4k interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. About Machine learning basics, activation functions linear regression, cnn, all basics..
  • Q2. About project questions, about sdlc basic 3 questions
  • Q3. About Why not used another model for training?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare Machine learning basics and project details well..

Top IBM Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What PCA, Decision tree and computer vision
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Data Scientist Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. for a data with 1000 samples and 700 dimensions, how would you find a line that best fits the data, to be able to extrapolate? this is not a supervised ML problem, there's no target. and how would you do it, if you want to treat this as a s... read more
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Data Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 13 Sep 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

General aptitude test numerical reasoning, verbaal

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Python question based on list.
  • Q2. Python question based on data manipulation

Data Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Suppose there is a room in the office and X people enter room throughout the day, Y people leave throughout the day [continuously people are entering the room, some are staying there, and rest are going out] .. so tell me the code to calcul... read more
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Python coding question and couple of SQL questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Spark Optimization techniques
  • Ans. 

    Spark optimization techniques focus on improving performance and efficiency of Spark jobs.

    • Partitioning data to optimize parallelism

    • Caching frequently accessed data

    • Using broadcast variables for small lookup tables

    • Avoiding shuffling operations whenever possible

    • Tuning memory settings for optimal performance

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Current Project discussions
  • Q3. Difficulties I have faced during during ETL pipelines
  • Ans. 

    I have faced difficulties in handling large volumes of data, ensuring data quality, and managing dependencies in ETL pipelines.

    • Handling large volumes of data can lead to performance issues and scalability challenges.

    • Ensuring data quality involves dealing with data inconsistencies, errors, and missing values.

    • Managing dependencies between different stages of the ETL process can be complex and prone to failures.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Data Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Write a query to get the customer with the highest total order value for each year, month. [Note: Order table is different and Customer table is different. Order_ID and Customer_ID are the PK of the table with Oid from Customer table being ... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic walk through of existing role, provided details about the Job description and work schedule.
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Cisco Routing and switching, Wireless, F5 LTM, Firewall, Web-proxy

Network Subject Matter Expert Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Real time network configuration
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IBM interview questions for popular designations

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Overall process understanding related to SAP and Ariba Asked about Ariba solutions worked upon Projects and challenges faced within the projects Overall role into the project Technical side mostly related...
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 2nd round was a managerial round where was asked about what is your understanding about IBM and mostly related to basic understanding of the P2P process. It was just 15-20 minutes discussion related to pro...

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for IBM Package Specialist interview:
  • Buying
  • Ariba sourcing
  • Contract Management
  • Supply chain collaboration
  • Cig
  • Sap s4
  • SAP ECC
  • Ariba slp
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - As a fresher it is really good to join IBM as I see it's the best company to start the carrer even if you are an experienced professional.
It will provide you the best growth and learning opportunities so I would suggest to choose IBM over any other MNC or for that matter better than any Big4 indian entity.

Package Specialist Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How to hide roles in SAP GRC
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Team Lead Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 28 Sep 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Swapping number program
  • Ans. 

    Swapping two numbers using a temporary variable

    • Create a temporary variable to store one of the numbers

    • Assign the value of the first number to the second number

    • Assign the value of the temporary variable to the first number

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Oops concept explain all?
  • Ans. 

    Oops concepts in programming refer to Object-Oriented Programming principles like Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, and Abstraction.

    • Inheritance: Allows a class to inherit properties and behavior from another class.

    • Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods that operate on the data into a single unit.

    • Polymorphism: Ability to present the same interface for different data types.

    • Abstraction: Hiding the complex implem...

  • Answered by AI

Top IBM Team Lead Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. How to add rotating images toh the page
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Team Lead Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. write a java program to get maxing profit by buying and selling a share from a given set of values (they will change the question after you give solution, like if consider buying only once and selling once they will say to buying multiple t... read more
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Jobs at IBM

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Lifestyle of software development
  • Ans. 

    Software development lifestyle involves continuous learning, problem-solving, collaboration, and adapting to new technologies.

    • Continuous learning is essential to stay updated with new technologies and best practices.

    • Problem-solving skills are crucial for debugging and finding efficient solutions to complex problems.

    • Collaboration with team members helps in sharing knowledge, brainstorming ideas, and improving code quali...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Real time example of class inheritance
  • Ans. 

    Class inheritance allows a subclass to inherit properties and methods from a superclass.

    • Subclass can access all public and protected members of superclass.

    • Subclass can override methods of superclass.

    • Example: Animal class can be superclass, with Dog and Cat classes as subclasses inheriting properties and methods.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Agile methodologies and waterfall methodology

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top IBM Backend Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is asynchronous And synchronous
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Backend Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Vertical Order Traversal of a Binary Tree Given a binary tree, your task is to return the vertical order traversal of its nodes' values. For each node located at a position (X, Y), its left child will be at (X-1, Y-1) and its right child wi... read more
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Consultant Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 14 Aug 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduction about roles and responsibilities
  • Q2. Asked about project working scenarios

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - good nice interview good way conducted but no response from HR after that

Top IBM Consultant Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. How is Warehouse Order created ? What is the logic behind the creation of Warehouse Order when there are 10 warehouse tasks ?
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Consultant Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How would you pass an entry for travel expenses incurred and paid by employee and was reimbursed? How would the end to end flow happens
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I appeared for an interview in Nov 2024.

Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. : Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. What is the difference between hard work and smart work? Tell me about the most boring job you have ever had?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - An Inspection Marketplace designed to streamline the third-party inspection process through innovative digital technology.

Python Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is the purpose of using the super keyword, Inheritance in Python
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. General SAP mm questions
  • Q2. Basics of sap wm

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please go through the JD of the role before interview.

Senior Associate Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. On an average, how many invoices can you process in a day?
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IBM Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in IBM interview?
IBM interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the IBM interview process are Technical, HR and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for IBM interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at IBM. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at IBM expect are Agile, SQL, Python, Javascript and Interpersonal Skills.
What are the top questions asked in IBM interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the IBM interview -

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How long is the IBM interview process?

The duration of IBM interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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