New Grad Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for New Grad Software Engineer roles take an average of 40 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IBM overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IBM as a New Grad Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 43%
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 14%
Presentation: 14%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM in Oct 2025
Interview
The first round online assessment consisted of 1 Leetcode Easy and 1 Leetcode Medium. The Medium was an extension of the Easy. The questions were related to string manipulation as well as heaps.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at IBM (New York, NY) in Sep 2024
Interview
I was given two coding questions and had 60 minutes to complete. The platform I think is HackerRank. Here is what is included in the email they sent me: Tips for success!
Please complete the assessment within the time included in the original invite, after this the assessment link will expire.
This assessment is timed. Once you agree the terms and start the assessment, you need to complete it in a single session, as the timer cannot be paused once started.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A shop in HackerLand contains n items where the price of the ith item is priceli].
In one operation, the price of any one item can be increased or decreased by 1.
Given q queries denoted by the array queryll, find the minimum number of operations required to make the price of all items equal to each queryli] (0 ≤ i < q).
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IBM (New York, NY) in Jan 2022
Interview
Standard Medium level leetcode questions. One was a dynamic programming problem and another was a 2 pointer problem. Most of these can probably be found on Leetcode. Then there was also a HireVue with some basic behavioral questions.