Senior UX Researcher

IBM

About this interview

A spoken practice interview for a Senior UX Researcher role, run the way teams at IBM are known to interview. You talk out loud with an AI interviewer for four to six questions, with real follow-up probes, then get an honest read on where you stand.

How this interviewer behaves: B2B and enterprise software: reward access strategy, expert-user interviewing, and findings that work for sales and engineering alike.

About the role

A Senior UX Researcher at IBM works on enterprise software, cloud and AI products that client teams build their own systems on. The users are experts inside client organisations, and access to them often runs through account teams and contracts. At this level you are expected to set direction for an area, bring partner teams with you, and be right often enough that people stop asking for the reasoning.

What you'd do

  • Reach expert users inside client organisations, often through account and services teams.
  • Translate findings so sales, engineering and design can each act on them.
  • Own the research strategy for an area, including deciding what is not worth studying.
  • Change a roadmap with evidence, and defend the conclusion when it is unwelcome.
  • Raise the bar: mentor researchers, review study designs, and build panels and infrastructure other people reuse.

What they look for

  • Experience researching technical or B2B products with specialised users.
  • Five or more years of product research, with specific examples of work that changed a product decision.
  • Rigour about causality, sampling and bias — and the ability to explain it to people who are not researchers.
  • Comfort delivering findings a senior stakeholder does not want.
  • The skill to turn qualitative depth and quantitative scale into one coherent story.

This is a practice interview, not a job posting. ADPList is not hiring for this role and is not recruiting on the company's behalf.

What this interview weighs most

  • The quality of the calls you made, and why you made them
  • Concrete detail: numbers, tradeoffs, what you personally did

How it works

  1. Pick an interviewChoose a company-style scenario or paste the exact job you're interviewing for. Product design, product management, portfolio walkthroughs and more.
  2. Talk it through out loudYou'll have a real spoken interview with an AI interviewer: 4 to 6 questions with genuine follow-up probes, just like the real thing.
  3. Get an honest scorecardFeedback calibrated to real hiring bars: where you stand across five dimensions, the moments that cost you, and your three moves to improve.

Ready when you are

No scheduling, no waiting.

Simulation inspired by publicly known interview practices. Not affiliated with or endorsed by IBM.

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