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Generalmotors interview questions

5 practice questions in the style of Generalmotors's interviews, covering System Design, Software Engineering Fundamentals, Coding & Algorithms.

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Generalmotors interview questions by the numbers

Last updated October 28, 2026

Katkat has 5 Generalmotors interview questions. The largest topics are Software Engineering Fundamentals (40%), System Design (40%) and Coding & Algorithms (20%). By difficulty: 80% medium and 20% hard. The most common round is Technical Screen (80%). Frequent concepts include System Design, Algorithms, API Design and BFS.

Topics

Software Engineering Fundamentals40% · 2
System Design40% · 2
Coding & Algorithms20% · 1

Difficulty

Medium80% · 4
Hard20% · 1

Interview rounds

Technical Screen80% · 4
Onsite20% · 1

Roles

Software Engineer80% · 4
Machine Learning Engineer20% · 1

Frequent concepts

System Design40% · 2
Algorithms20% · 1
API Design20% · 1
BFS20% · 1
CI/CD20% · 1
Circuit Breaker20% · 1

Most mentioned in interview experiences

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Choose Between a Monolith, Microservices, and a Modular ArchitectureMedium
Compare monolithic and service-based architectures and plan incremental extraction or consolidation around domain boundaries, data ownership, and measured goals.
GeneralmotorsSoftware EngineerSystem DesignTechnical Screen
Connect Monitoring, Circuit Breakers, Rollback, and CI/CDMedium
Tests your ability to architect an end-to-end reliability workflow combining resilient dependency handling, actionable telemetry, and safe continuous deployment with automated rollbacks.
GeneralmotorsSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
Count Islands in a GridHard
This problem tests your ability to navigate a 2D grid and identify distinct connected components using graph traversal techniques like Depth-First Search (DFS) or Breadth-First Search (BFS).
GeneralmotorsMachine Learning EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
Implement a REST GET Endpoint and Evolve Its Contract SafelyMedium
Tests understanding of RESTful API design principles, HTTP semantics, robust error handling, and strategies for backwards-compatible contract evolution.
GeneralmotorsSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
Meet a 10-second latency and 99% availability target across 3-5 dependent servicesMedium
An open-ended design discussion about an application that calls three to five dependent services and must keep latency under 10 seconds and availability at 99% or better. It tests objective definitions, availability and tail-latency math, timeouts, retries, fallbacks, and adapting as requirements change.
GeneralmotorsSoftware EngineerSystem DesignOnsite

Generalmotors interview experiences

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Open-Ended System Design That Ran Fifteen Minutes OverGeneral Motors · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026
The interview was scheduled for 45 minutes. The interviewer gave me a question that was roughly: there is an application that has to call three to five dependency services, and how do you guarantee a specific target for a specific service, for example access latency under 10 seconds and availability above 99%. It didn't feel like a normal design round. It felt like a very open-ended discussion ab…
Hiring Manager Chat Turned Technical, Then a Codility REST API Phone ScreenGeneral Motors · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
Earlier I had a call with the hiring manager. I expected the whole thing to be behavioral, but surprisingly it was almost entirely about technical decisions — things like how you'd go from a monolith to microservices, the tradeoffs between the two, and then how you'd go from microservices to a more modular architecture, and how to make those calls. About a week after that call, a recruiter reache…