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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

February 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

1 HackerRank and 1 final interview, consisting of the following:

  1. A short introduction and 10 minutes of trivia questions. These were very weird, as it seemed they were recruiting for a mid-level application security position, not a new grad software position. They exclusively asked questions relating to security, such as how OAuth works or what CORS is.

  2. I was informed by my recruiter that there would be a system design round, so I spent the majority of my time preparing for the interview, practicing system design. However, there was no system design round. I read online that if it did occur, it would likely be an elevator design question or the common parking lot system design question.

  3. A 45-minute live coding part, which was the valid Sudoku question from LeetCode. I solved and coded the first part of the question quite fast but struggled to solve the last part, and the interviewer refused to give any hints. When there were 5 minutes left, I came up with a solution that we agreed would work, but I did not have time to finish implementing it.

  4. 30 minutes of your standard behavioral STAR questions. Make sure you follow STAR very closely because they don't actually care what your responses are, only that you follow STAR as closely as possible.

Overall, it was a bit difficult compared to what I was expecting. Maybe the interviewers liked me so much that they declined me to save me from the absolute trash fire GEICO is.

Questions

Integer to Roman on LeetCode.

Valid Sudoku on LeetCode.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 33 interview experiences for the GEICO Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

GEICO's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral27%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for GEICO's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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