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Armada is an edge computing company that provides infrastructure and software to deliver cloud, connectivity, and AI capabilities to remote and challenging environments. It is known for its ruggedized modular data centers (Galleon) and platform designed to bring compute power to areas with limited connectivity.

5 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Armada·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026
Armada software engineer interview, one coding round focused entirely on API integration and data wrangling. Nothing algorithmic, just clean retrieval logic and defensive coding. Felt more like a take-home in spirit even though it was live.
  • Write a function that fetches all paginated records from two separate API endpoints, joins them on a shared key, and returns a cleaned list of merged objects while safely handling missing or invalid data.

“The pagination part was fine, I've done that before.”

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Armada·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026
Short behavioral round at Armada for a software engineer role, just 15 minutes, focused entirely on walking through past projects. Nothing too surprising but you need to come in with specific examples ready or you'll be scrambling.
  • Walk me through one or two past projects: what the goal was, what you specifically did, the technical decisions and trade-offs involved, the hardest challenges you hit, and what the measurable outcome looked like.

“This is basically the whole interview compressed into one prompt.”

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Armada·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Coding screen at Armada for a software engineer role. Pretty straightforward problem but the follow-up one-liner twist is where things got interesting.
  • Given two integers Count and col_num, print a matrix of consecutive integers from 0 to Count-1 line by line, where each line is prefixed by its starting index and contains col_num values. Handle the case where Count is not evenly divisible by col_num. Follow-up: rewrite it as a one-liner.

“The base version wasn't bad.”

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Armada·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Coding round for a Software Engineer role at Armada. About 45 minutes, one problem focused on calling two APIs, handling pagination, and cleaning up bad data in the responses. Nothing algorithmically tricky, just practical HTTP and parsing work.
  • Given two API endpoints, write code that fetches data from both, extracts specific fields, handles pagination across all pages, and defensively deals with None values and empty strings in the responses.

“Felt pretty manageable at first and it mostly was, but pagination tripped me up a bit.”

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Armada·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Armada software engineer interview threw a classic puzzle at me, the 25 horses problem. Pretty standard for a technical screen but I second-guessed myself more than I expected to.
  • You have 25 horses and a track that fits 5 at a time. No timer, just finishing order per race. What's the minimum number of races to find the single fastest horse? Bonus: what about the top 3?

“I knew this one but still fumbled the explanation a bit.”

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