I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Garmin in Oct 2024
Interview
Two step process, started off with an initial phone screen which has your typical phone screen questions, Basically to make sure you are a real person. I was told I would be moving on to the technical round during the phone screen, then about a week later I got an email to schedule the technical.
The technical was with a Garmin engineer over a Zoom call. Very laid back experience, we talked about different topics and I got a really good vibe from the person who interviewed me. We mainly talked about what I liked to do before moving on to technical questions and finally two live coding questions which could have been leetcode easy questions.
I got an offer the next week.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What is a Semaphore (within the context of multithreading).
Phone screen was a common tell me about yourself and why Garmin. They didn't ask any follow ups on your answered and seemed to just run through the list of the questions they had.
I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Garmin (Olathe, KS) in Nov 2025
Interview
I had 1hr behavioral Interview and 1hr technical interview. Behavioral interview was about how I got to know the company, why should the company hire me, and what kind of research experience I had.
Process took about a month. Recruiter was slow getting back to me but interview process was alright. The interviewers were friendly and mainly focused on problem solving and how you think through your code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In Swift, implement a function that takes an array of integers representing the total distance covered each second, and returns the average in seconds per kilometer.
Explain code snippets
Finish the function type of questions
All in swift
