Cognitive Developer applicants have rated the interview process at IBM with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Cognitive Developer roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 16 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 Cognitive Developer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 28%
Phone interview: 20%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Background check: 8%
One on one interview: 8%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 4%
Skills test: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at IBM (Littleton, MA) in Jan 2020
Interview
- 3 Assessments: Cognitive, Personality, Coding
- Didn't hear back for a while and then got contacted by a recruiter a month later for a specific location interview and had the phone interview (was super relaxed and no technical questions at all)
- I got an official offer within the next couple days, but it was for Cog. Dev. (IoT) Intern role although I am primarily interested in ML and DL :( (was informed this during my interview)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you ever faced a challenge when working on a team project? Please describe.
Pretty easy and a simple Python coding challenge plus review of my ability to understand machine learning techniques. I ended up working with them for the summer, great people on a great team.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Toronto, ON) in Aug 2021
Interview
Applied for the job and got the interview there was no technical round all the questions were situation-based. But that is not the case for all job opportunities at IBM sometimes I had to answer questions related to my field.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had a question related to regex in the technical round once. But mostly in the video interview had questions like tell us about a time you went above and beyond while working on a project.
The online coding assessment had an issue with the javascript implementation so I had to switch languages to python halfway through writing the solution, which wasted a lot of time
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Question 1
Make a call to a specific api endpoint and return a given subset of that data