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My Interview Experience for the Application Developer Role at IBM || Not Selected || Dec 2024

Round 1: Online Assessment

Questions: The online assessment consisted of one coding question on Dynamic Programming: Longest Common Subsequence. The time limit was 40 minutes, and I completed it in 20 minutes.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2: Communication Skills Assessment

Questions: The communication skills assessment included sections on listening and speaking, correcting errors in sentences, and fill-in-the-blanks exercises.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3: Additional Coding Round

Questions: An additional coding round was conducted with a 30-minute medium-level coding question on Stacks.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 4: English Writing Round

Questions: In the English writing round, we had to answer behavioral questions within 20 minutes.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 5: Group Discussion

Questions: The Group Discussion topic was "Benefits of AI in College Life," and I contributed for 5 – 7 minutes.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 6: Technical Interview

Questions: The interview began with a self-introduction and project-based questions, focusing on my experience with React and API integrations. The interviewer asked me to write code to fetch data using Axios.

The DSA segment included four coding questions:

  1. Shortest Path using Dijkstra’s Algorithm - Write its pseudocode.
  2. Full implementation of Merge Sort.
  3. Implement a Fenwick Tree (Binary Indexed Tree).
  4. A simple problem on palindromic strings.

Additionally, HR questions included "Why do you want to join IBM?" The total time for the interview was 1 hour 15 min.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.