Garmin·Software Engineer

Garmin Software Engineer interview experience

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Blacksburg, VAPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter screen, my interviews quickly became hands-on in a way that felt like a real engineering check.

I got asked basic behavioral questions—strengths, weaknesses, and examples of team success—then I moved to a technical round where I had to work with existing C++-style code and find issues. The expectation was that I could read code at both a syntactic level and understand what it was supposed to do conceptually.

The practical part in this cluster wasn’t just talk. I worked through debugging tasks by stepping through multiple files, and whenever I hit errors I was allowed to ask for prompts that would point me in the right direction rather than shutting me down completely. Some versions

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