Interview Experience of IBM, Bangalore
Role - Associate System Engineer
Package - 4.5 LPA
Experience - Fresher (Pursuing MCA)
It was an off campus drive by RTU(Rajasthan Technical University). Students came from all over the rajasthan. Eligibility criteria was 60%+ in 10th/12th/Graduation.
It consists of 5 rounds, each round was an elimination round.
1. Cognify Ability Test
2. Learning Agility Test
3. English Test
4. Coding Test
5. Final Interview
Round 1) Cognify Ability Test -
- This test measures the candidates ability through game based assessments including problem solving, numerical reasoning, verbal knowledge etc.
- This test is of 30 minutes in which several games assessments have to be completed.
- Each game is having their own time limits, and you have to be really quick in solving the questions, with the accuracy.
- So it is basically a mental ability game, that checks how fast and quick you can solve the problems under the pressure.
Round 2) Learning Agility Test -
- This is the personality test, in which you would be given 50 paired personality questions to be answered in 10 minutes, and you have to be (agree/disagree) with the statements that are most true to you.
- This test measures the personality of the candidates, so be honest and choose the statements that describes the real you.
- Most of the candidates were eliminated in this round.
Round 3) English Test -
- This test measures your proficiency in English. This test is of 15 minutes, having negative marking as well, so be careful with your choice.
- It consists of questions from several areas of English such as-
a. Spotting errors in sentences.
b. Spelling errors.
c. Synonyms/Antonyms.
d. Fill in the blanks.. etc.
Round 4) Coding Test -
- This round consists of 1 coding question along with 5 MCQs from computer science fundamentals (database, operating system, networking etc). It was a 40 minutes test.
- This test was conducted on hackerrank.com.
- Coding questions were random and was of easy level. You have to write the code in any language you want, and your code will be evaluated against 7 Test Cases, and your code should pass those test cases.(I think atleast 50% of them).
- My question was - For each element in array, find if that element belongs to the triangular subsequence number or not. (Triangular subsequence is any of the series of numbers (1, 3, 6, 10, 15, etc.) obtained by continued summation of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.)
Round 5) Final Interview -
- After clearing all the rounds, you would be called for the final interview, taken by the senior person of the company. He is asking questions from my resume only, mostly focused on the projects i built. Since i have a lot of those mentioned, he was pretty impressed.
- Overall this round was pretty easy, if you are confident enough with your resume and projects.
- Make your projects yourself, don't copy them from internet.
- Don't ever lie on your resume.
After this round, documents verification and bio-metrics were done, after which we were free to go, and the final results were declared after 2-4 days.
My whole interview process took 12 HOURS , was very tiring and time consuming.
Verdict - Selected!
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