I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2009
Interview
Two intital telephone interviews; one with a team lead another withing hiring manager. Follow-up telephone interview a week later with hiring manager. Standard interview questions. I closed the interview by asking the hiring manager what are your greatest challenges for the next 30 days? Next 90 days? This gave me the opportunity to offer (high level) solutions to those challenges, thereby positioning myself in the hiring managers mind as the person to solve those issues.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were asked to step into the lead role in this organization, what would be the greatest challenge to overcome?
3 rounds of interview, HR call, zoom call, onsite panel interview. Not too bad, ppl are cook. they asked technical questions, and also behavior questions. they also give you a chance to ask them questions about culture pay etc.
It was very swift and easy. There were three questions and all had to be done by recording yourself. There was also a coding question and SQP question. It was an hour long interview.
Lengthy but fair interview process. HR personnel, then hiring manager, then team members, and then a non-team person to give outside assessment. Good luck, as it seems tough out there right now.
