I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Garmin in Nov 2014
Interview
Met with HR Recruiter during a campus visit. E-mailed me within a week to schedule a phone interview which took place the next week.
Phone interview lasted about 45 minutes and was mostly behavioral (Describe projects you've worked on, most favorite and least favorite classes, etc.) along with one technical question. Received an e-mail exactly one week later inviting me for an on-site interview.
On-site interview consisted of a initial meeting with HR, two technical interviews, lunch tour, and then one more technical interview. The technical interviews were with three different groups, two from aviation and one from outdoor. I brought one of my school projects along with me and was very enthusiastic about showing it to them, and in the aviation interviews we even spent more than half the time talking about it. Other questions given to me were basic Operating Systems and C coding questions.
Received a call two weeks later (there was a holiday weekend in there somewhere) with an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Count the number of set bits in an integer
-Find all odd values in the array and make them even (array and array length are arguments)
--(Follow up) How would you do the previous question without a for loop?
-Describe the purpose of a Semaphore
-Describe how multi-threading works
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?
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.
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.
Software Engineer I 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 I 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 I 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%
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