Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Garmin (Olathe, KS) en feb 2021
Entrevista
I was contacted by a recruiter to apply on LinkedIn to apply for an embedded software role on their watch team. I was immediately told my years of experience from doing research as part of my MS would count which is usually a red flag for me. The recruiter convinced me to interview for the next role which I accepted out of curiosity.
The next interview was a technical one which consisted of a round of questions regarding my resume and another with coding in C++. During the first portion, they oddly focused on a part of resume that was most pertinent to what they were doing at the time. I thought this was odd as most other interviews I've had the team tries to get a sense of you holistically and not just one portion of your career. The last bit was a coding challenge in C++ which I honestly struggled with a little as I haven't written in that language in a very long time, something I made apparent in each interview I had with Garmin. As this role was supposed to be more signal focused, I received very few questions related to this area. The senior engineer was kind enough to explain to me that the role was more towards debugging and maintaining code rather than developing. I was happy to walk after this discussion. For those in medical device already and are interested, the culture is not the same to the one you would be leaving.
Preguntas de entrevista [3]
Pregunta 1
What are other words for false positives and false negatives?
5 months of back and forth, very poor communication, and easy interview questions only to be told I needed to fly out to kansas in a few days time. Went out there for an in person interview, was ghosted, and then rejected with no reason.
Me postulé a través de otra fuente. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Garmin (Calgary, AB)
Entrevista
1st interview with HR, asked about what do i know about company, why i want to work here and all general questions. Said that it will be one technical task to do and second round will be at the office with managers.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Gave me few days to do technical task - data compression algorithm.
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Garmin (Olathe, KS) en abr 2025
Entrevista
The interview consisted of 3 rounds, with the final round being an on-site interview.
Started with a basic phone screen, why Garmin, about myself, etc. The interview was easy and lasted approximately 30 minutes.
The second interview was a Teams call with Coderpad. Spent the majority of the interview reviewing my resume, technical skills, and then answering technical questions related to the position (e.g., how would you describe paging in OS).
The final round consisted of 4 interviews over the course of 6 hours on-site at their facilities. These were similar interviews with multiple teams, but different Leetcode-style questions. Consisted of going over my background, resume, technical work, and then Coderpad.
The total time was approximately a month, from receiving the phone screen to the on-site interview. Took about a week after the final interview to hear back.