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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 21, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Olathe, KS
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Garmin (Olathe, KS) in Jun 2016

      Interview

      Applied online to an opening on company website. Received a phone call from HR about a week later, wanting to do a behavioral interview. Behavioral interview was over the phone, and contained several generic questions about my background and why I want to work for Garmin. At the end of the behavioral interview there were a few basic technical questions, mostly conceptual stuff. The following day, HR called me again to set up another phone interview, this time technical. The interview was with an Engineering team manager. He gave me a rundown of his background and what he does, then asked me about my projects, resume, education for a little while. Then he asked me a simple coding question and some follow-up questions about that. Finally, I was able to ask him some questions and that was that. The technical interview went well, I thought, and I expected to hear back for a third, in-person interview. I had gotten all the technical questions right and hadn't said anything too strange or out of place with the behavioral questions. However, I received an email a week or so later saying that I wouldn't get a third interview. No other explanation was given, which was pretty frustrating.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Define semaphore/mutex
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How would you use a pointer in C?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Difference between overloading and overriding
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Write some C code to take an array of numbers, go through the array, and double each odd number in the array.
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Follow-up to the above: How would you do this using bit-masking?
      Answer question
      7

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Garmin

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 6, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Garmin

      Interview

      There was an initial phone interview with the recruiter. That was on the informational/behavioral side. Then there was a brief phone interview with the manager of the team. I was asked a variety of technical questions. After that, there was an on-site interview. There I met the manager and the manager's manager. They asked specific technical questions in different areas of programming and then gave me a coding exercise.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What's the difference between a monolith and microservices?
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      May 11, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Garmin

      Interview

      You first speak to hr, talk about your resume and experience, normal stuff. The technical started off with basic hr questions and a bit about your resume and experience. Then began to ask basic OOP concepts like Polymorphism, got asked whats difference between pass by reference and pass by value, stuff like that. Then a few coding questions in python.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 27, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Garmin

      Interview

      It was a straight forward interview process, discussed my previous experience, and some general technical questions, and did a programming exercise in a video interview. A SQL problem and a DSA problem.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A recursion problem with prime numbers
      Answer question

      Garmin interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Garmin with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 189 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Garmin overall takes an average of 25 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Garmin as a Software Engineer according to 189 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  29%

        One on one interview:  17%

        Skills test:  16%

        Group panel interview:  13%

        Drug test:  6%

        Presentation:  6%

        Personality test:  5%

        Background check:  5%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Other:  1%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(244) ;
        2. Product Support Specialist(101) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(82) ;
        4. Software Engineer II(64) ;
        5. Software Engineer(Internship)(53) ;
        6. Software Engineer Intern(41) ;
        7. Mechanical Engineer(40) ;
        8. Engineer(26) ;
        9. Project Manager(25) ;
        10. Software Engineering Intern(25) ;
        11. Design Engineer(22) ;
        12. Design Engineer Intern(16) ;
        13. Software Developer(14) ;
        14. Cartography Technician(13) ;
        15. Intern(13) .


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