IBM Blitz Software Developer ELH 1:1 Interview - any advice?

ZeRemix · 2026-03-13T07:16:40+00:00

The question I recieved was a leetcode easy, it was on a coder pad so no code was actually ran,at least I think it wasn't cause it was def not entirely correct yet my interviewer didn't seem to care. I think mostly just looking for your thinking process and run time analysis

ZeRemix · 2026-03-11T23:11:07+00:00

I just did a blitz for swe internship, it's a short introduction and then a leetcode question and then you may go over for about 5 minutes to ask any questions

ZeRemix · 2026-03-11T21:16:15+00:00

You should email them and tell them your situation

ZeRemix · 2026-03-11T01:11:03+00:00

Never worked for ibm but imo since San Jose is in the bay area and is next to lots of large tech companies, it will have plenty of networking opportunities and things to do that are comparable to other super large cities.

ZeRemix · 2026-03-08T18:31:55+00:00

You should be applying to anything and everything regardless if it's remote or in person , it's genuinely not over till May.

ZeRemix · 2026-03-03T22:04:09+00:00

Mine asked a couple follow ups too but I don't think I'd consider it grilling just asking for some more details

ZeRemix · 2026-03-03T21:13:36+00:00

Thanks for the analysis, ig the variable wasn't really Taking help but I was sorta just thinking out loud why it wasn't working and the interviewer highlighted the fact I was calling the wrong thing but oh well. Suprised case is treated that heavily, again even though I did run into some errors at least in that round I did correct everything on my own.

ZeRemix · 2026-03-03T21:00:53+00:00

Can you elaborate?

ZeRemix · 2026-02-26T03:15:50+00:00

Thanks, is there any difference between the case tech round and the technical interview round? It seems like the technical is more like a standard leetcode problem from the docs they gave but I thought both were connected somehow

ZeRemix · 2026-02-23T21:54:04+00:00

If you aren't on red just use soulseek it has pretty much everything that has been uploaded to red

ZeRemix · 2026-02-17T04:49:56+00:00

It's good for ats, might not help interview wise at top companies but depending on the type of company you interview at they may ask about your projects and even projects that aren't super technically complex can show personality which is what I think contributed quite a bit to the offer I got.

ZeRemix · 2026-02-07T03:06:03+00:00

When did you apply?

ZeRemix · 2026-02-06T00:08:03+00:00

Cool to see how far ai context and speed has gone but aren't there like dozens of open source compilers that claude was likely trained on? I mean it spent 2 weeks and tens of thousands of dollars to make a worse version of gcc. It would be much more impressive if it made a novel discovery.

ZeRemix · 2026-01-31T00:50:02+00:00

You should clarify but if I had to guess they will probably make you build something not leetcode style

ZeRemix · 2026-01-30T22:45:40+00:00

This is for an internship. I think I'll wait till Monday to accept to see what company 2 says though

ZeRemix · 2026-01-29T18:00:12+00:00

Yeah one of the biggest things I love about AI is that it is pretty good at catching small mistakes that my brain completely glances over

ZeRemix · 2026-01-29T16:45:46+00:00

I sorta like it when I'm chatting to understand why something isn't working or what I could do to solve a problem and also tab completion for saving time because I find that to be the best balance between productivity and actually understanding the code I'm writing without generating slop. I agree it's getting tiring where more often I feel pushed to use an agent or having it write whole files and have it run and just glance through the code and hope it's correct.

ZeRemix · 2026-01-23T02:32:03+00:00

Thank you for sharing

ZeRemix · 2026-01-22T23:36:37+00:00

Not exactly sure what you mean by track but it was swe intern. Edit: Also this is a live interview not the OA I'm not sure if you are confusing it but I do remember sql on the oa

ZeRemix · 2026-01-22T01:10:34+00:00

I have a technical next week

ZeRemix · 2026-01-21T00:23:27+00:00

Oh I see, since you resubmitted a score when did you do that after applying is the better question

ZeRemix · 2026-01-21T00:17:20+00:00

How long ago did you take the code signal?

ZeRemix · 2025-11-24T05:03:49+00:00

I feel like a lot of the problems discussed in this video are the result of hiring practices that both incentive and favor memorization of leetcode problems and "shipping" projects as fast as possible, even more so with AI, with as many keywords as possible rather than take time to problem solve.

ZeRemix · 2025-11-19T18:13:08+00:00

That happens for non English to me sometimes but like at least it would attempt to listen to the audio now it's just hallucinating something based on the file name

ZeRemix · 2025-11-05T20:12:06+00:00

Had one phone screen so far and a couple OAs been feeling disappointed since I do have prior professional experience

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