You first speak to hr, talk about your resume and experience, normal stuff. The technical started off with basic hr questions and a bit about your resume and experience. Then began to ask basic OOP concepts like Polymorphism, got asked whats difference between pass by reference and pass by value, stuff like that. Then a few coding questions in python.
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through university. I interviewed at Garmin
Interview
I did one phone screening interview where I did some programming exercise in C. After that, I did an in person interview with four separate teams. The in person interview was from 10am to 5pm.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave me a lot of C programs on a sheet of paper and asked me what I could do to improve the program. Some of the common errors were...
Initializing a variable of the incorrect type.
Using strings rather than simple bit operations.
Returning a pointer to a local function variable.
It was a straight forward interview process, discussed my previous experience, and some general technical questions, and did a programming exercise in a video interview.
A SQL problem and a DSA problem.
I applied online. I interviewed at Garmin (Yarmouth, ME) in Jan 2026
Interview
HR screening was pretty basic. Technical interview was done remotely. There were two people on the call beside myself. Questions were all technical and didn't bleed into any behavioral questions or assessments.
