CloudKitchens Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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Los Angeles, CAPosted Jun 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach led to a menu-stream style coding assessment where the core challenge was parsing streamed menu data into structured representations.

I was given an interface/class to read from, and I had to design object models for the menu so the structured output made sense—categories, dishes, and options—while also handling how to reconstruct the stream.

What made it feel less like a typical algorithm prompt was the emphasis on class design and the correctness of parsing. I ended up implementing a class structure that could read the provided stream and create the right objects, including logic for how nested items related to each other. The environment expected that my objects and functions would map back cleanly to the original

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