On 29th Nov, 2023 at 11am, I had my first Round of IBM - Global Sales - Summer Intern Hiring that was the Screening Round (elimination round).
Note: go though your JD(job description) properly as it's really important.
Questions were as follows:
//type-I
- Self Intro.
- What do you know about IBM? explain achievements of ibm.
- What's your particular interest or domian in tech.?
- What attracts you towards IBM?
more questions from JD...
//type-II
5. Difference b/w memory & storage. Also, what is the model of your phone explain its features and qualities.
- Which one is better microservices or monolithic architecture?
- What is ascii?
- What do you know about private & hybrid cloud? State the main difference.
- What is kubernetes and ochestration?
- Why cloud & vm?
- CN layers and more technical questions on networking.
- Explain SDLC.
- and more on os, coa and dbms...
//type-III (personality ques)
- Tell about your hobbies.
- Greatest moment in life.
- Your Fav. book and writer?
- Your role model.
- What do you do in your free time?
& in the end the interviewer concluded asking: Any question for me?
My interview went for around 45 mins.. & I got shortlisted with 7 of my batchmates.
I had the next HR Round on the same day at 3:30 pm,
Note: stay well prepared with your resume as it's really important.
HR Questions were as follows:
- Intro. yourself..
- DSA related questions: explain any one searching technique like- "Binary search algo" , explain sorting technique - "Bubble sort" or any of your choices..
- What are different types of time complexities?
- Explain ASCII completely with example.
- Screenshare and explain any one of your mentioned projects.
- How much do you rate yourself in coding & in which lang?
- Why that particular language and not anyother?
- kubernetes vs docker?
- Which latest technologies you know?
- ending with: Any question for me?
This round took around 30 mins..
The final list of selected students was released after 4-5 weeks.