CloudKitchens Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a multi-hour coding project where I wrote a multithreaded order fulfillment program. After that, I moved into a deep dive focused on how my multithreading was handled, digging into the design choices and the concurrency model.

The final stretch emphasized system thinking about a real-time kitchen workflow. I was asked about a producer-consumer style setup for fulfilling delivery orders—how delivery order ingestion would connect to the placement of cooked orders onto the appropriate shelves. Even though I had code from earlier rounds, this kind of framing made me feel like