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IBM Research Associate Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 21 Nov 2024

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in May 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

2 coding questions were given. They were pretty basic. Mostly from arrays and strings.

2

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. What do you mean by OOPs
  • Q2. If the fan is an entity, what are the attributes to it?
  • Q3. Questions based on projects
  • Q4. Sorting algorithms

Interview questions from similar companies

I applied via campus placement at Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune and was interviewed in Nov 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare all the skills deeply that you are going to include in the resume.
Master at least one programming language or at least possess a good knowledge about it.
Don't just study the theory. Be prepared with the practical knowledge.
Pay attention to your communication skill.
Be confident & honest.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 -
Result
Selected  Selected

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is the internal working of a hashmap?
  • Q2. Design a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are the SOLID principles in software engineering?
  • Q2. What design patterns have you worked with?
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

It was pretty easy. Various theoretical questions on technical knowledge and 3 coding questions. Since I was applying for a .net profile, all questions were related to that only.

2

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Coding question on inheritance.
  • Q2. Coding question on Abstract classes and their application.
  • Q3. Discussion on the company, their culture.
  • Q4. Coding question on graph.
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked me my expected salary even though it was already decided when they reached out to me.
  • Q2. Negotiations on the salary.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Had a very bad experience with HR, since they started negotiating on salary after I completed all my rounds. Giving me reasons why they won't be able to give me the salary that they mentioned at the start of the interview.
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Javascript related questions like temporal dead zone, hoisting, closures, scopes and differences, output based questions, scenario based questions etc
  • Q2. 2 Coding questions one was a mix of array and objects and another was to create prototype function for array flat
2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Discussion indepth related to microservices architecture for any project, Optimisations for a project, Behavioural questions, Deployment processes and How i han...read more
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Intro and rest basic discussions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Get good/solid understanding of basics of anything also be curious to learn more tech stacks which could align to same.
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I was interviewed in Nov 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Coding test was easy. They asked LC easy anyone with fair understanding of programming can easily solve it.

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked a question from Blind 75 that i dont remember as of now. I kind of stumbled here yet gave a code for original question
  • Q2. Asked LC hard question. Interviewer was very rude and did not give a shit about my approach when I tried to explain it to him/her. He said just run code against...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - HRs were very professional and polite but not the interviewer.
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Online zoom coding test will be there - 4 questions - 2 about output of code & 2 about technical questions.

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Polymorphism and explain about virtual polymorphism
  • Q2. Write code for virtual polymorphism and explain
3

HR Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. About yourself should explain
  • Q2. Reason for job change
  • Q3. Salary negotiations and location

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I have interviewed for c++ developer role in incedo company - please make sure you are completely aware of every functions and keywords relate to c++ concepts.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain technical challenges you have come across and how did you overcome it?
  • Q2. Explain the main feature of JavaScript frameworks
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. REST API for User CRUD
  • Q2. Two Sum Leetcode problem
  • Q3. Basic questions based on the candidate technical skills
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basics to Intermediate level of questions based on the skills mentioned in the resume
  • Q2. Projects related discussions
3

Document Verification Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. I was informed to upload the supporting documents. ( They rejected me after this eventhough all my documents are genuine )

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The interviewer's are friendly. Be prepared as per your resume.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Whats is Denpendency injection?
  • Q2. What is middleware

IBM Research Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in IBM Research Associate Software Developer interview?
IBM Research interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the IBM Research interview process are Coding Test and Technical.
What are the top questions asked in IBM Research Associate Software Developer interview?

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