IBM

IBM

Global technology and consulting firm with deep roots in enterprise IT and AI.

3 Rounds ~14 Days Medium
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The Interview Loop

Recruiter Screen (30 min)

Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a batch pipeline to ingest 10TB of daily log data into a data lake on IBM Cloud.

#Batch Processing #Data Lake #IBM Cloud Object Storage #Spark
Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a real-time streaming pipeline for credit card transaction fraud detection.

#Streaming #Kafka #Spark Streaming / Flink #Low Latency
Data Engineer System Design hard

How would you migrate an on-premise DB2 database to a cloud data warehouse with minimal downtime?

#Cloud Migration #CDC #DB2
Data Engineer System Design medium

Design an idempotent data pipeline. Why is idempotency important?

#Idempotency #Data Pipelines #Fault Tolerance
Data Engineer System Design medium

Design a data model for a retail e-commerce platform.

#Data Modeling #Fact Tables #Dimension Tables
Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a metric aggregation system that handles late-arriving events in a streaming architecture.

#Streaming #Watermarking #Event Time vs Processing Time

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Senior Engineer

Focuses on core competencies, system constraints, and clear communication.

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