I applied online. I interviewed at General Atomics (San Diego, CA) in May 2017
Interview
Email/phone call from HR asking to schedule a phone interview. The interview is about 30min; the first 2/3 is questions about your resume (past experience, languages, projects), the last third is their standard technical screen which you can find on Glassdoor. Assuming you pass the phone interview, you're brought on-site. The on-site starts with a quick information session with an HR rep that's mostly just about the company and their benefits, then an hour long interview with a panel of 3 engineers, then an hour-long coding session in C. The panel interview was mostly about past projects you've done - be prepared to give specific answers to how you contributed and problems you faced. The coding problem had to do with parsing an array of unsigned chars and following some specific logic depending on the values you saw. Total time between first applying online to getting an answer after the on-site was about 6 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a specific technical challenge that you had to solve in order to finish this project?
Straight forward - 30 minutes phone screen with behavioral and technical questions on C++.
Followed by 5 hour in-person or virtual interview which included both technical and behavioral questions. Each hour was a different interview with different people.
A 30 minute microsoft teams meeting with questions regarding basic C++/C knowledge, resume review, and generic behavioral questions. Delved specifically into how I work in a team environment, personal strengths and weaknesses, and how to address difficult conversations.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
30 minute phone call, technical screening with questions around data structures and operators. Last half was resume screening. It was more of a genuine conversation about competency and skill and why you're interested with GA.