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      Software Engineer Interview

      7 Oct 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Kansas City, KS
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Garmin (Kansas City, KS) in Jul 2017

      Interview

      Friendly phone interview that lasted about 40 minutes. Basic questions about interest in Garmin were asked. Some random technical questions about software were asked. I was able to provide an answer to all of them. I had zero expectation of a job offer and only decided to do a phone interview to practice my interview skills. I've learned long ago that phone screens with technical recruiters were usually a waste of time. All job offers I've ever had in my life were when I was initially contacted by the hiring manager and not HR or a technical recruiter for a "phone interview". What job seekers do not realize is that Garmin hires H1Bs for cheap engineering labor. To hire H1Bs, companies need to be able to provide some kind of evidence that they cannot find any candidates at all that meet their needs or skill requirements. The tactics they use is to either have a long extensive list of various skill requirements in their job ads that nobody can possibly possess all at once and/or when they conduct interviews they simply ask random technical questions where either the candidate might not have an answer to or an answer that the recruiter can pick apart and say that your answer just didn't sound competent. It's a simple legal tactic for a company to manipulate the system and make claims that they cannot find an American engineer that meets their skill requirements. My advice is to do just what I did. Interview with them for practice and with zero expectation of an offer or second interview. Write down their questions as they are being asked, and then use those for continual practice to interview for the next company that is actually looking for American labor. Believe me, if all H1Bs and outsourced labor in the STEM fields were banned, you'd see wages in the engineering fields literally double overnight, and finding work would be a matter of picking which company is offering the highest sign on bonus.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What are your salary requirements?
      2 Answers
      6

      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Garmin

      Software Engineer Interview

      11 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Garmin

      Interview

      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.

      Software Engineer Interview

      27 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Garmin

      Interview

      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.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A recursion problem with prime numbers
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      Software Engineer Interview

      17 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Yarmouth, ME
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Can you explain what polymorphism is?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Leetcode-style live coding assessment asking to compare two strings and determine if they are anagrams of each other.
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