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Updated Apr 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Security Assistant at General Atomics
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in La Jolla, CA (took 5 days)
After applying for a position I was qualified for, a recruiter contacted me from GA 3 days later to review my resume over the phone. We spoke for about 15-25 minutes about each work experience I had from various employers. I did not feel that the recruiter fully reviewed my resume as he would often repeat the same question "and you've worked there for 2-3 years?". Long story short, the recruiter did have the decency to call me back and say they chose someone else to move forward and that they would keep me notified if anything else came up.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at General Atomics
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 (took 4 weeks)
Recruiter was professional. The managers who interviewed me were professional and welcoming. The only thing that was a little over the top is how they require employer references from over 5 years. That is the only part of the process that held up the job offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test and a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at General Atomics
Posted Apr 13, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Poway, CA (took a day)
Spoke to an HR person who basically went over my resume to make sure everything was correct. Talked a lot about the culture of the company. Asked if I had any questions. Asked what my schedule was like to arrange a follow up interview on-site but never heard back from her.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer at General Atomics
Posted Apr 6, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Poway, CA (took a day)
I only did the phone interview and did not make it past that. They asked very specific questions about C memory management (static variables, heap, stack, what does the operating system do when it calls a function). In addition they asked about serial interfaces and baud rate and how that translates to characters per second. They also asked about controls, in particular transforms (Laplace in particular) and wanted an in depth review of PID control.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer II at General Atomics
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
one hour phone interview. 40minutes of this hour were questions about C and object oriented programming and the last 20minuest was coding.
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Supply Chain at General Atomics
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took a day)
Recruiter was rude and rushed, got the feeling that she had a quota to meet.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Systems Engineer at General Atomics
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Poway, CA (took 2 weeks)
Phone
1. Phone Interview by recruiter (15 min)
2. Phone Interview by a panel (30 min)
3. For second interview, they fly you over to Poway
Face to Face (5 hours)
4. Meet with recruiter to discuss salary
5. Meet with panel of engineers - They ask technical questions about UAV systems, eg comm. protocols, etc...
6. Meet with supervisor (would be your boss) - He asks you business questions
7. Meet with head of department - Kind of a personality test, see if you have the "nack"
Go home
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Graphic Illustrator at General Atomics
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 2 weeks)
Mine was out of the ordinary since they were in a deadline crunch and had a lot of collateral that still needed to be designed. I basically went over my experience, showed my portfolio and thanked them for their time. For the second interview (behavioral) they brought me into a conference room and showed me their current Ideas for the event and asked my opinion. I advised them to scrap everything and drew up a new event solution there on the spot. That's what got me the job - the stones to tell them their idea was crap.
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Negotiation Details
they offered, I accepted
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The interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering Manager II at General Atomics
Posted Jul 27, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Hiring and interviewing process was professional and quick. I conducted a phone interview and one week later had a video conference with a team of seven engineers and managers. The questions were typical interview questions coupled with occasional probative questions. Most questions were structured to answer resume and specific experience questions and how that relates to advertised position.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at General Atomics
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
I got a phone call from an HR guy, he said the engineering manager wanted to do a phone screening interview. He had to reschedule once, but then called. It was awkward, and he was very much to the point. He didn't care about me, just wanted to know my experience, and seemed to try to find holes in my statements. He was very specific, and didn't put up with anything. He probably gets what he wants which is why he is where he is.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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