I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Feb 2011
Interview
It started with a phone interview. The phone interview consisted of questions on C/C++, Object Oriented Concepts and one or two puzzle questions.
The onsite interview started with half an hour recruiter interview, then a panel interview. The panel interview consisted of mainly questions going over your resume. Then a skills test with an hour time was given.
The skills test was creating a dynamic array using classes and printing the elements of the array.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at General Atomics in Jul 2026
Interview
After initial phone screening expect 2 rounds 3 hours total including behavioral and technical questions and understand basic cs concepts and object oriented programming along side a couple brain teasers. Overall smooth process.
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?
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at General Atomics with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 89 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at General Atomics overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at General Atomics as a Software Developer according to 89 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
Group panel interview: 20%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 11%
Drug test: 7%
Presentation: 7%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 0%
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