I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Gentex Corporation in Feb 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume on a career fair at school. After a few days, I was given an on-site interview. No phone screens. The onsite was like most on-site interviews, 6 people from different groups, each for 45 mins. Some of them asked about your resume, basic C stuff, one round of behavioral question from 2 HRs. Oh, you have a chance to write code on a whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One interviewer asked me to estimate how many lines of code I had written, and what was the longest code I wrote. I had never noticed them before.
I applied online. I interviewed at Gentex Corporation in Feb 2026
Interview
Applied online. Two days later, asked to take an online skills evaluation, consisting of 6 problems, for which I had to write a C function. The problem statements were poorly written. The coding was fairly easy, mostly array manipulations. No hard core embedded problems, like bit manipulations. I finished 2/6 problems. 2 of the "fails" crashed their system when tested; the other two "fails", my time expired. If I only had 1 or 2 more minutes on each. Two hours after this evaluation, I got the automated rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
6 coding skills problems, to write a short C function, like, counting the number of occurrences of a string in an array of strings, or eliminating a duplicates in an array. Nothing specific to Embedded Software.
I applied online. I interviewed at Gentex Corporation (Grand Rapids, MI)
Interview
It was a few round panels back to back. They had me do some programming questions and asked me some fundamentals. They did a mix of online and in person.
Very lengthy, went through a grand total of 7 interviews over 4 different days. Included technical programming tests, phone interviews, two virtual interviews, and a day of four in-person interviews.
Embedded Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gentex Corporation with 3.7 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 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gentex Corporation overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gentex Corporation as a Embedded Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 24%
Phone interview: 24%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 7%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 2%
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