I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at General Atomics (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Phone interview with general questions on .NET knowledge and past job experience.
On-site interview that consisted of a meeting with a manager who gave a general overview of the company, what they do, and what they're working toward.
After the meeting with the manager I had a meeting with about 5 developers who watched me solve coding problems. This was for an entry-level position, so they were fairly easy.
I would have seriously considered an offer from this company, they definitely had a good culture and they I felt like I would fit in pretty well there. I didn't have time to wait to see if they were going to make an offer because they took too long to decide and I got an offer from a different company that I liked a little more and that had a shorter commute.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that returns the nth Fibonacci number.
Initial phone call with HR. Second interview was with one engineer. This interview consisted of reviewing my experience as well as technical questions. Third interview was panel style with a coding assessment provided to me prior to the interview. They asked to explain my code and how I would modify it given various scenarios.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General docker and k8s questions.
Time complexity of various data structures.
Initial 30 minute phone screening. Second interview was an hour going over my previous work experience and technical questions that consisted of OOP fundamentals, pointers & references, mutex locks, TCP vs UDP, virtual funcitons
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you troubleshoot HW & SW network communication?
I applied online. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Initially was supposed to have a 30 min phone call with the recruiter, but ended up starting with an hour long video interview with two engineers instead. Questioned me on basic CS concepts (TCP/IP, concurrency, race conditions, heaps & stack, etc.). This was followed by a 2-hour long interview with the panel. Went over some behavioral questions and then 2 brainteasers and 2 easy LC questions. Overall I felt that I did well in the two rounds as I had answered all the questions pretty well, but I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OS concepts, concurrency, TCP/IP, heaps & stack. Program a simple stack counter and sum triangle.