IBM

Posted August 2nd, 2007 by unknown

Career Details

Eligibility:

Engineering Degree with 50%

Selection Process:

Written
GD
Interview

Entry Package:

2.2

Organization Details

Industry:

IT/Software, Hardware

Web-Site:

http://www.ibm.com

Company Profile :

IBM India Limited, a subsidiary of IBM Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation), was set up in September 1999. Before that IBM was present in India since 1992, through a joint venture. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.

IBM Solution Partnership Centre, Bangalore: (One among 10 facilities worldwide) Independent Software Vendors are encouraged to port their solutions on IBM platforms at this centre and develop Web based applications for Indian customers.

Linux Solution Centre, Bangalore: (One among 7 facilities worldwide) The centre supports Business Partners and Independent Service vendors across the ASEAN / South Asia region.

IBM Linux Competency Centre, Bangalore: (One among only 4 facilities in Asia) This centre develops standards and embedded software for open source, undertaking high-end research in the area for IBM Worldwide.

India Software Labs at Bangalore and Pune: The two labs develop, enhance and support key IBM products & technologies in collaboration with other IBM labs across the globe.

India Research Laboratory, Delhi: (One among 8 facilities worldwide) This laboratory located in the sprawling campus of Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, has research initiatives underway covering areas like e-Commerce, Knowledge Management, Bio-Informatics, Grid Computing, Autonomic Computing etc.

Global e-business Software Centre, Gurgaon: This state-of-the-art center combines IBM's global experience and technology expertise to deliver e-business solutions for Indian organisations and also the government through the e-Governance Centre.

Manufacturing Facility, Pondicherry: Set up in 1999, the plant currently manufactures commercial desktops, low and mid-range servers. Local manufacturing has helped in reaching products to customers faster, besides giving the flexibility to configure the systems to specific customer requirements

Written Test

The written test consists of two sections each of 45 minutes duration

Section#1

This is the aptitude section consisting of 45 questions to be attempted in 45 minutes. As is in all the exams, this section is based on the MBA pattern of examination.

Section#2

his is the technical section. There is a separate paper for hardware and software. Candidates have to mention beforehand whether they want to write the software or the hardware paper.This section also carries 45 questions to be completed in 45 minutes.

Interview

There are two rounds of interviews, viz., the technical and and the HR round

Technical and Personal Round for Software Candidates

Mainly subjective questions in C, Operating Systems, DBMS, Data Structures are asked interspersed with some on the candidate's personal background.

.Typical questions in C and Data Structures

1. WAP to interchange 2 variables without using the third one
2. Explain quick sort and merge sort algorithms amn derive the time-constraint relation for these.
3. Explain binary searching, fibonacci search
4. General questions on binary trees, transversals
5. General questions on graphs and their representation.

Typical Questions on Operating Systems

1. Demand paging, page faults, replacement algos, thrashing, etc
2. Paged segmentation and segment paging

In this section, case studies are presented are presented before the candidate to percieve his reaction and his/her communication skills are tested. IBM expects teamwork and teamspirit from the candidates and their answers should reflect this attitude

Typical question is

You are a project manager of a big multinational project. There is a person X, assigned to you who has the best technical skills required for the project, even better than you. But he wishes to be the project manager ,which the management does not permit, due to which he threatens to quit. All others in the group are not as competent. Talk yourself out of this situation pretending that the interviewer is the disgruntled employee and explain the necessary action.

Average:

Average: 2.9 (12 votes)