CarGurus·Software Engineer

CarGurus Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Cambridge, MAPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with a recruiter screen, and then I moved into a technical phone stage that involved live coding.

The coding test was described as simple, but I still felt like the process was building toward a specific theme: lots of SQL and query work. On the phone screen, some questions were straightforward, while others felt more like general CS trivia than directly job-shaped.

When I got to onsite, it was still heavily SQL-driven. Multiple rounds included writing SQL queries and working through database concepts like how joins behave and how cardinality/groups work. There was also a coding component where I had to write and test code, and the onsite stretched long enough to feel grueling if you

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