General Motors

Junior Software Engineer (Android) Interview Experience - Detroit, Michigan

August 1, 2020

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First round was a Hirevue interview: 5 technical questions (1 Java question and 4 Android questions) with one retry. Got the result within one day; they want to move forward with a second round of interview, which was 2 hours, behavioral along with technical. The first hour was with the hiring manager and a technical professional; the second was with another technical professional and a product owner.

Questions

Simple behavioral questions like, "Tell me about a time where you had to disagree with your colleague."

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Interview Statistics

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Pass Rate

General Motors's interview process for their Junior Software Engineer (Android) roles in Detroit, Michigan is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for General Motors's Junior Software Engineer (Android) interview process in Detroit, Michigan.

General Motors Work Experiences

Easy Work, Incompetent Manager

AI Engineer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: The work was easy; your peers are not elite, so there was no competition-based pressure.

Cons: Your manager doesn’t know how to complete your work if they had to.

Easy Work, Incompetent Manager

AI Engineer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: The work was easy; your peers are not elite, so there was no competition-based pressure.

Cons: Your manager doesn’t know how to complete your work if they had to.

Nice company to have on your resume, but too corporate

Software Developer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

October 20, 2020

Pros: Great Company Name, Nice Office, Nice Products

Cons: You are just a number to them. A lot of gossip. Clique-y.

Nice company to have on your resume, but too corporate

Software Developer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

October 20, 2020

Pros: Great Company Name, Nice Office, Nice Products

Cons: You are just a number to them. A lot of gossip. Clique-y.

Rule by fear!

Senior Data Architect • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

November 13, 2016

Pros: Great building and access to the executive dining club. Nice areas, such as Gross Point, to live close to work if relocating to the Detroit area.

Cons: Total nightmare upper management culture that rules by fear. For example, contractors under one director were required to attend a weekly 7:00 AM meeting. If you were late, you were fined $100. If you were late for three, you were fired.

Senior Data Architect • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

November 13, 2016

Pros: Great building and access to the executive dining club. Nice areas, such as Gross Point, to live close to work if relocating to the Detroit area.

Cons: Total nightmare upper management culture that rules by fear. For example, contractors under one director were required to attend a weekly 7:00 AM meeting. If you were late, you were fined $100. If you were late for three, you were fired.

Easy Work, Incompetent Manager

AI Engineer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Pros: The work was easy; your peers are not elite, so there was no competition-based pressure.

Cons: Your manager doesn’t know how to complete your work if they had to.

2.0
Easy Work, Incompetent Manager
AI Engineer • Former Employee
Detroit, Michigan, United States
March 19, 2025
Pros: The work was easy; your peers are not elite, so there was no competition-based pressure.
Cons: Your manager doesn’t know how to complete your work if they had to.

Nice company to have on your resume, but too corporate

Software Developer • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

October 20, 2020

Pros: Great Company Name, Nice Office, Nice Products

Cons: You are just a number to them. A lot of gossip. Clique-y.

4.0
Nice company to have on your resume, but too corporate
Software Developer • Former Employee
Detroit, Michigan, United States
October 20, 2020
Pros: Great Company Name, Nice Office, Nice Products
Cons: You are just a number to them. A lot of gossip. Clique-y.

Rule by fear!

Senior Data Architect • Former Employee

Detroit, Michigan, United States

November 13, 2016

Pros: Great building and access to the executive dining club. Nice areas, such as Gross Point, to live close to work if relocating to the Detroit area.

Cons: Total nightmare upper management culture that rules by fear. For example, contractors under one director were required to attend a weekly 7:00 AM meeting. If you were late, you were fined $100. If you were late for three, you were fired.

1.0
Rule by fear!
Senior Data Architect • Former Employee
Detroit, Michigan, United States
November 13, 2016
Pros: Great building and access to the executive dining club. Nice areas, such as Gross Point, to live close to work if relocating to the Detroit area.
Cons: Total nightmare upper management culture that rules by fear. For example, contractors under one director were required to attend a weekly 7:00 AM meeting. If you were late, you were fined $100. If you were late for three, you were fired.

General Motors Interview Questions

Number of Connected Components in an Undirected Graph

Determine the number of disconnected groups (connected components) within a given undirected graph. You're provided the graph's edges and need to find how many separate, reachable islands of nodes exist.

Implement Trie (Prefix Tree)

Design a data structure that efficiently stores a set of strings and allows for prefix-based searches. Implement methods to insert strings, search for complete words, and check if any word starts with a given prefix.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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