I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at General Atomics
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at General Atomics in Aug 2016
Interview
Phone interview with various questions about resume and techincal experience. Lots of questions about operating systems and random ones about bitwise operations. The interview wasn't too bad but they seem to be very adamant on knowing operating systems. Interviewer was nice and described the average day if you were to get the position, as well as any training you would get.
Applied online through a staffing agency and received an email the following day to schedule a phone interview. I was asked to briefly talk about my resume and then some technical questions.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at General Atomics (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2019
Interview
Received a phone interview. I Was asked basic concept-based questions related to Object Oriented Programming and embedded systems. The interviewer wanted to know if you had a good understanding of programming basics. He was a bit hasty, though. One question that I needed to think through was "what is an interrupt and what are the steps necessary to take it". I asked the recruiter if I could have a moment to think it through and he responded with "you either know it or you don't" and rushed me to move on to the next.
Thanks so much for your time. We never intend to make anyone feel rushed, so we’ll make note of that, and we sincerely hope you’ve found the right opportunity.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at General Atomics (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I got a phone interview to get to know my background. Then I went in for a 3 hour interview. They showed me around but I got the feeling like they weren't really interested in hiring me. Only the first interviewer was actually there. One them didn't; show up and the other said he was to busy to interview me so they found to random people to talk to me and they told the second of the two that when they were done total me to the lobby. The second interviewer didn't know what to ask me. The only reason he even asked me anything was because I had brought copies of my resume and he just asked me basic questions from there. When the last one finally showed me to the lobby I wasn't told about any follow up or when they would get back to me. I was really disappointed by how they made me feel. They should have just told me I wasn't a good fit from the begging instead of making me talk to them for three hours. Know you pointers and how static variables work. Only two technical questions throughout the whole three hours. Three weeks later they called me just to tell me I didn't get the job. I don't know why they would call me after three weeks.
We’re very sorry to hear you had such a disappointing interview experience. We’re disappointed by it, too, and apologize you were not made to feel more welcome. We will do our best to follow-up with the team and, we hope, learn and improve from it.