I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
Interview was straightforward with technical and behavioral questions BUT if you haven't brushed up on the basics for any language you will have a hard time. Unfortunately for me who does not do well in timed and rapid fashion answering environments, this turned out to be harder than expected. Experience does play a key in the interview because they ask if you had any experience prior to applying. On the other hand, the interviewer was polite and reasonable with me since I had trouble and gave me advice rather than scorning me for the basics. I was later given a pretest to answer and the questions weren't too bad but like I said, and word of advice, relearn the language prior to applying for any software position.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
What is volatile (in C) and why would you use it when you communicate from software to hardware.
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.