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Updated Jan 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Garmin
Posted Jan 14, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Kansas City, MO (took a day)
I had three interviews with Garmin for three different positions in the company. Each interview consisted of questions asking me what I was looking for in a company, a set of technical questions (what is a pointer, etc.), and a software engineering puzzle I had to solve. Know your general terminology and be good at solving puzzles and you'll be set.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Design Engineer at Garmin
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Getting an onsite interview directly from a campus recruiter. The most difficult part of the on-site interview is the first technical interview. I was asked to solve several circuit problem, but I didn't get all of them though. Then someone would take you tour the entire building and take you to the lunch.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Garmin
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Overland Park, KS (took 1+ week)
The phone interview was basically by HR. She asked me the basic HR questions. Got an email inviting for an onsite interview. They took care of all the accommodation. The same HR asked the same questions once again and if there was a change in compensation requirements. Later it was a group interview where 2 team leads interviewed me with basic C questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Cartography Tech at Garmin
Posted Nov 2, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Olathe, KS (took a day)
Phone interview, followed by on-site interview. Process lasted around 5 hours consisting of presenting software, applying software to data, and panel interview at the end.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiating... Period.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Anonymous at Garmin
Posted Sep 26, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 2 months)
I received a call for an interview about one month after I submitted my resume for the position. I'd read on this site that sometimes the interview process at Garmin can be long and drawn out. Within a few days, I met with an HR professional and the hiring manager separately. I was called back and a week later I met with a group of potential coworkers and then brief one-on-ones with two other managers within the department. Everyone I met seemed smart and friendly and professional. A good interview experience even though I did not get the position.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Systems Engineer at Garmin
Posted Aug 25, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Diamond Bar, CA (took 3 days)
Two interviewer sat in front of you and asked questions. In the end they will ask you about the jar+ball game question, here is the answer:
1x2+2x2+3x2+4x2+5x2=30
30-(the weight reading)=the number label for the jar that you are looking for
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Garmin
Posted Aug 17, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Olathe, KS (took 3 weeks)
To start off, I am a fresh college graduate (B.S.) in computer science and this was my first corporate interview ever. I simply applied on their website and was contacted in about a week.
I received a call from HR to kick off the process. It was about 1 hour long and mostly non-technical. A few simple technical questions like 'What is function overloading? overriding? What is a semaphore?', etc. but that was it. The usual questions were more like 'Describe your resume experiences. What is your favorite programming language?' etc. After that I was contacted in a few business days (less than a week) for an on site interview scheduled for 2 weeks later. They flew me in and paid for the rental car and hotel. The on site interview was actually a mini-interview to start, 4 1-hour interviews, and a free lunch intermission tour of the campus and offices. The mini-interview was just a recap of the previous HR interview with an HR representative. Then I had a 1:1 interview where I was asked to solve a problem with the interviewer. Given a general Image View that can zoom, pan, scroll, etc. write an algorithm that can determine the absolute image coordinates of a user click even if they have zoomed in and/or scrolled. It was an interesting problem and I had a semi-working solution by the time the interview was over. Then I had a panel interview with 1 project manager and 2 team leaders. This was more laid back. We talked about the research I did in college and my opinions about different programming languages. The third interview was 1:1 and it was half technical. First I talked about major projects and challenges I had worked on and then the second half was rapid fire questions about C and a little object oriented stuff. Questions like: 'Write a routine to do an in order traversal of a binary tree (then do it without recursion). How would you set only 1 bit in a 32 bit value. What is the difference between big and little endian? Here are some common data structures, where would you normally see them and why? Explain negative runtime impacts caused by inheritance.' Then there was a free lunch tour with a regular employee. After that was my last 1:1 interview. There was a quick discussion and then all technical questions. I had teaching assistant experience on my resume and the interviewer asked me to teach him what a semaphore was. Then he showed me some C code and asked me what was wrong with it. Then finally he gave me a problem to solve in less than 10 minutes. The problem was to shuffle a deck of cards. I barely got a solution down that I explained while I was writing it. He was happy that I even finished a solution even though it was hideously inefficient. He was the only interviewer to ask me to see the self coding example that I was told to bring.
The interviewers were all pleasant and willing to work with me when I stumbled through some of the questions. There were a few tricky ones that I definitely was not able to answer right off the top of my head. One last note for what it's worth, all of my interviewers were white males with an average age probably in the mid to late twenties though there were a couple in their late thirties for sure. Overall the interviews were pretty simple and not very stressful.
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Negotiation Details
I tried to negotiate a higher starting salary and they were not very receptive to it at all. I was ignored for about a week and when I was finally contacted (after leaving a few messages to different people) I was simply told that they wanted to keep a consistent hiring salary and that none of my team leaders wanted to compromise on that. That said, I did receive a higher salary offer than I expected and I am happy with it.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Drug Test.
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Business Development Manager at Garmin
Posted Jul 2, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Olathe, KS (took 2 weeks)
The job description was very vague, but my internal contact had told about the position and I applied.
The recruiter was very guarded on her comments, but it was easy to read that she wanted to underpromise and over deliver. After the telephone interview, she called within the hour to schedule flights for 1:1 interview.
The 1:1 interview was pretty straightforward. I was well prepared with lots of case studies from McKinsey, Bain; work place examples etc which are typical for such positions, but the interviewers (HR, Director and colleague) asked the same questions - which were all behavioral. It appeared that they were scripted. There were no technical questions or questions about the in depth knowledge required for the job. I knew I had aced the intreview and the next morning, I had the offer letter in hand.
Interview Questions
1. Tell me about yourself
2. What did you like/dislike about your previous job?
3. Tell me about your management style.
Negotiation Details
Garmin doesnt pay well and this was the background that was created before I interviewed. So I wasnt expecting much. The offer was slightly less than my expectations, but they made it up by offering a sign-on bonus. Relocation was mediocre. I did not negotiate hard but was able to squeeze a nominal amount above the offer. Overall, recruiter was very professional and responsive.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Product Support Specialist at Garmin
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 in Olathe, KS (took 1 week)
Applied and it probably took about a week or two to hear anything back. Finally I was asked to come in for an interview. Interviewed with HR rep and a supervisor. Was called back the next day for the job offer. Then I had to do a drug test and I believe a background check as well.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Garmin
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 3 weeks)
It is a very standard interview, questions were based on
1. previous experience and skill sets required on the job
2. few basic data structure based questions
3. Had a panel of three technical interviewers and a HR interview.
Technical Interview is a cake walk, if you would have prepared for it. Basic interview questions as would be asked on any embedded software interview. Like what is stack, heap, volatile / static variables, DMA and few questions on the hardware debuggers. They would ask for you bring a software program and explain it.
HR interview seemed to be an important one. Looking for service mentality. The challenges faced in your work environment and how you handle it.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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