CarGurus·Software Engineer

CarGurus Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Boston, MAPosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started like a lot of SWE interviews: recruiter call, then a technical phone screen with live coding that centered on SQL queries and some algorithm questions.

After that came an onsite that lasted about four hours, with multiple interviews packed into the schedule. There was also a surprise half-hour lunch with four random engineers, which added an unexpected social layer.

Onsite, the vibe felt repetitive. Across most of the interviews, I kept getting pulled back into writing SQL queries and then implementing algorithm problems. In the remaining session, it was more algorithm-focused, but I still didn’t get the broader range I expected. We didn’t really dig into my past projects, and there wasn’t any system design discussion at all. The overall

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