I applied online. I interviewed at General Atomics (Poway, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Typical three-round interview process. Starts with an HR phone screen, then a technical interview with an engineering manager, and culminates in an onsite panel interview. Started off great in the first two rounds but it was like I was interviewing with a different company for the final round. They were quite rude to be honest, and I got the impression I was wasting their time just by showing up, and they just wanted to get it over with and get me out of there. Why was I moved on to the final round in that case? Scheduled for 1.5 hours and didn't even make it to 1 hour before they were already wrapping up their portion. Could have easily just been a virtual panel and not waste the time of everyone involved.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR was conversational, both technical interviews involved asking resume questions. The final round had a "pop quiz" of sorts where they hand you telemetry graphs and give you a couple of minutes to figure out what phase of flight the craft is in as they look at you impatiently.