General Atomics Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Neutral

San Diego, CAPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I faced a difficult two-stage process with heavy technical questioning up front, followed by a system design exercise and then a C coding assessment.

Phone interview (concept-heavy) — I was asked a large set of technical programming concept questions (e.g., OOP, OS responsibilities, stacks).
In-person interviews — I discussed my experience and then designed a simple system on a whiteboard, including features and high-level implementation details.
Assessment (coding challenge in C) — After the design discussion, I completed a C-based evaluation and it didn’t go well. Outcome: I didn’t advance to an offer; the takeaway is that the later assessment mattered a lot even if the earlier stages went reasonably well.

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