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Junior Software Developer Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2020
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Process

I applied through Handshake from my university for GM's early career talent program.

The entire interview process took approximately one month from start to end.

The initial interview was a one-way behavioral interview done through HireVue. The questions were typical behavioral questions; you had 2-3 minutes to answer each question and also had two attempts.

About a week after finishing the behavioral assessment, I received a two-question coding challenge, 20 minutes for each question, which was through HireVue as well. The questions were standard LeetCode easy questions. The questions required parsing standard input, which I was unfamiliar with since I didn’t know my RegEx (Oops!). However, I wrote the code for the rest of the question and left a comment about how I didn’t know how to parse stdin for one of the questions. For the second question, I was able to pass the tests.

Surprisingly, I passed and received a request for a brief phone screen 9-10 days later with a current software developer. They asked basic questions about background, career goals, and I received a request for a video interview 1-2 weeks later. The video interview was two hours overall: a one-hour technical interview going through my resume and another hour with typical behavioral interview questions.

I was extended an offer by phone a couple days later and had a week to accept the offer.

Questions

Distance between some points.

Parsing standard input.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the General Motors Junior Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for General Motors's Junior Software Developer interview process in United States.

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