GEICO Software Engineer interview questions

“Took me a minute to realize you should always try to place the bucket to the right of a house first, not the left.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I thought I had it after reading the problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic problem but I still fumbled the eviction logic for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question sounds straightforward until they start peeling it back.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with brute force because I figured they'd want to see my thinking.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Jumped straight into queuing and async writes, which felt right, but I spent too long on the ingestion layer and barely touched replication strategy before time ran out.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one has a lot of moving parts and I kind of underestimated that going in.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was a beast of a question and I don't think I paced it well.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The problem reference in the source was encoded in a way I couldn't fully decode, so I can't tell you exactly which one it was.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one made me squirm a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at GEICO, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.