CarGurus·Software Engineer

CarGurus Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started normally with a recruiter screen and then moved into a technical interview.

The first red flag was how the technical interview actually ran: neither interviewer turned their camera on, which felt disrespectful right from the start. The questions themselves weren’t very difficult, but whenever I tried to clarify or expand on my answer, I’d get cut off and rushed to the next question. It made the whole interaction feel strange and more like I was being managed than evaluated.

After that, I also ran into another process where I got ghosted. I made it through an introductory phone call that seemed to go well, then I was expected to move to a technical interview, but the

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