Principal Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at GEICO with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at GEICO overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at GEICO as a Principal Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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Very fair. All the interviewers were over 15+ years at Geico and very understanding and practical in explaining the problem. Gave real scenarios that a Principal has to manage and mentioned more on how to change people's. mentality to new approaches.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you get team motivated to come out of buy mentality and build things
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at GEICO in Nov 2023
Interview
This is for SRE position
Step 1: Applied through GEICO careers & reached out by recruiter
Step 2: Job Fit Round
Step 3: Power day, 5 interviews (SRE focus, 2 behavioral, system design, algorithm/coding)
They interviewed for Senior Eng role though I applied for Principal and they asked for me one more coding round after power day to make a final decision. It was a 7 rounds interview.
SRE interview - kinda unprofessional, the interviewer read me a question paper given by his supervisor.
Coding/system design - It felt good, quality questions, professional and interviewer was helpful in answering my questions. However interviewer appeared to be inexperienced, over enthusiastic and fixated on the answers that interviewer came prepared for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two sorted arrays and linked lists.
Number of elements smaller to the right in an array (Binary tree with duplicates approach).
Build and deployment system design.