CloudKitchens Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Mountain View, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The recruiter reached out after I applied on LinkedIn and sent me a take-home assignment built around a REST API and a provided seed.

I ran my implementation against the seed, submitted the results, and the harness reported pass/fail.

What threw me off was how the feedback process didn’t line up with what I did. I later realized the team didn’t pull my latest code even though I submitted an updated version before the deadline. It also became clear they struggled to distinguish parallel processing from concurrency, and they insisted the tests didn’t pass even after I had run them for days. I even tried to model my approach after well-known open-source work, but it still came back invalid.

In the end, I wasn’t selected. The

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