Initially heard about the program through an alumni from my campus that's at the company. Eventually applied online for the internship and he wrote me a recommendation that I believe helped greatly in getting me an interview. After submitting the online application, I believe I waited for about a week before being contacted about references and their "IPATO" test which is a basic intelligence test. I believe it was after finishing this part that I scheduled my technical interview. Scheduled my technical interview for after my finals (a few weeks later). The technical interview was really something different from most software technical interviews. I wasn't asked to program or to create an algorithm in a pressurized environment. Instead, I was asked to explain what I understood about different concepts and the interview was extremely comfortable with a great flow. At the end of the interview, he told me that he's not officially able to confirm whether or not I can move forward, but that he thought I had what it took and he'd push me forward. (Similarly, a friend of mine had an interview that he thought had gone well initially and that he said was really a relaxed conversation, but at the end of the interview, was told that he was not going to be pushed forward.) I was then contacted as being part of a finalist's pool and was told that I'd be given potential teams to work with that they thought I'd be a good match for. If the team made sense to me, I could accept an offer from the team. If not, I could go back into the pool. Then, I was scheduled an interview with a team. Talked to the two technical mentors that would be mentoring me and the manager of the program (4 people on that call including me.. my suggestion: if you want to work at IBM, get comfortable with lots of people on lots of phone calls). Phone call went well enough and after a 45 minute call, I was called back by the manager of the program, who told me that I'd been accepted.