I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
First round is a video call over Microsoft Teams, went over coding concepts in C/C++. Second round was an in person coding assessment (40 min) and then a panel interview with managers. The panel was technical and behavioral.
Other Software Developer Interview Reviews for General Atomics
Initial phone call with HR. Second interview was with one engineer. This interview consisted of reviewing my experience as well as technical questions. Third interview was panel style with a coding assessment provided to me prior to the interview. They asked to explain my code and how I would modify it given various scenarios.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General docker and k8s questions.
Time complexity of various data structures.
Initial 30 minute phone screening. Second interview was an hour going over my previous work experience and technical questions that consisted of OOP fundamentals, pointers & references, mutex locks, TCP vs UDP, virtual funcitons
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you troubleshoot HW & SW network communication?
Straight forward - 30 minutes phone screen with behavioral and technical questions on C++.
Followed by 5 hour in-person or virtual interview which included both technical and behavioral questions. Each hour was a different interview with different people.