IBM Recruitment Process

This article will give you information about the company, its recruitment process, sample questions that have been asked previously, lots of experiences shared by other aspirants, and the portal where you can apply.

About Company:

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed “International Business Machines” in 1924.

IBM is nicknamed Big Blues. IBM is one of the world’s largest employers, with (as of 2016) nearly 380,000 employees. In 2015, IBM was ranked 43th overall in the Forbes World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. in 2017, IBM was ranked 5th in the Forbes World’s Most Valuable Brand ranking.

Recruitment Process:

TCS conducts 4 rounds to select freshers as Assistant System Engineers in their organization.

• Written Round
• Technical Round
• HR Round

Academic Criteria:

• 65 percent or above in B.Tech, Class X and XII.
• There were no backlogs at the time of the interview

Written Round:

The Written round consists of two parts namely the Number Series and General Aptitude Test and English Assessment Test. For the Number Series and General Aptitude Test, there is a timer of 2.15 min. For the English Assessment Test, the total time duration is 20 minutes. There is no timer for each question as in the 1st round. Both are objective tests.

Technical Round and HR Round:

The students who clear the written round are called for a Technical Interview. There is no hard & fast rule for which questions will be asked in this round, you can expect questions on any topic depending on the panel. To clear this round you should be clear with your basics. You should be prepared with Data structures and Algorithms, DBMS, Operating Systems, Networking, OOP concepts, and a programming language of your choice. Students from branches other than CS should prepare for the other two subjects related to their branch. CS students will be expected to write codes in the interview. They also ask questions about resumes. You may be asked puzzles in this round. To be prepared for puzzles you can practice from our Puzzles section.

Sometimes they only ask HR questions like:

1. Tell me about Yourself
2. Why IBM
3. Questions form resume

Interview Experiences:

It is always beneficial if you know what it is to be there at that moment. So, to give you an advantage, we provide you with the Interview Experiences of candidates who have been in your situation earlier. Make the most of it.

• IBM Interview Experiences

Questions Asked in IBM:

1. File Handling in Java
2. Explain weak entity types
3. Sort a stack
4. What is an attribute

Where to Apply?

• IBM careers
• IBM Official Website