GEICO·Software Engineer

GEICO Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had the usual start with a recruiter screening call to talk about my background and interests, and then the process moved to a hiring manager interview.

That round surprised me because it didn’t really cover my experience at all—instead the conversation jumped straight into a “rockstar coders” vibe and a coding question. I worked through the approach but couldn’t fully code it up, yet I still got passed along.

Next came a Codility section with two rounds. The problems leaned heavily toward string manipulation and array/set/hashmap style topics. After clearing that, I went into an SRE-focused interview where the discussion was centered on reliability, fault tolerance, and how I handled uptime and failure scenarios.

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