I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Garmin (Orono, ME) in Jan 2020
Interview
Very solid interview. Began with questions that depict personality, then moved into coding interview. One-on-one interview, which is unheard of nowadays, and inspired confidence. The interviewer had an above average sense of humor for a software engineer, which was a nice surprise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Search a binary tree and return the largest integer at any point. Any programming language can be used.
What project are you most proud of? Why?
Quick phone call asking the regular questions like tell me about yourself, why Garmin, etc. Then the coding interview, which in my personal opionion it was hard. They had all different types of coding problems, and unfortunately I got the hardest one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself, classes, why garmin, experience.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Garmin (Olathe, KS)
Interview
1st round was a brief screening interview with HR, over the phone, ~20 minutes.
2nd round was a technical interview with engineering team lead. Done over MS Teams. About 1 hour. Questions about past projects, technical quiz questions, and two brief real-time coding problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Garmin?
Describe past projects
Describe a time you had to show integrity and choose to do the right thing
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Garmin in May 2025
Interview
Terrible. I've interviewed here twice now. The HR department will ghost you and the interviews themselves contain lots of frivolous questions. It's clear they don't respect their applicants very much at all. Very unprofessional.
