IBM company conducts 3-4 rounds to select fresher as Software Developer in their organization.
first round is Aptitude test, second round is Technical interview and third round is HR interview.
Academic Criteria of student :
- Minimum 75% marks is required in class 10th and 12th.
- Minimum 7.0 or above CPI in B.Tech.
- No backlogs at the time of interview.
Round 1: Aptitude test
The Aptitude test round consist three major section each section has multiple choice questions in which
only one option will be correct. first section contains C, C++, java, programming based questions according to your chosen language. second section has contains MCQ based on your institute syllabus such as Operating system, DBMS, Theory of computation, Computer network etc. third and last section contains general aptitude questions related to probability, cube, speed and distance, work and time, blood relation etc. you will be given 75 minutes or 120 minutes according to number of questions.
Round 2: Technical Rounds
Only those students are allowed to appear in this round who have passed the Aptitude test . There is no guide to tell which questions will be asked in this round but you can guess the types of questions. Your basics must be strong to clear this round. You should be prepared with Data structures and Algorithms, DBMS, Operating System, Networking, OOPs concepts and at least one programming language of your choice. This are some questions asked by the company-
- Coin Change problem dynamic programming. https://leetcode.com/problems/coin-change/
- Quicksort algorithm sorting algorithms. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1182371/Quicksort-Implementations-oror-C%2B%2B
- Minimum number of swaps required to sort an array. https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-swaps-to-make-sequences-increasing/
- Detect loop in a linked list. https://leetcode.com/problems/linked-list-cycle/
- Reverse a linked list. https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list/
- Program for array rotation. https://leetcode.com/problems/rotate-array/
Round 3: HR Rounds
Sometimes they asked HR Questions like:
- Introduce yourself?
- What do you know about IBM?
- why you are good for the role Software Developer?
- What are your Strength and Weakness?
- why you want to join the IBM?
- After 5 year where you want to see yourself?
- Question from Resume?
- Questions form prior projects?
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