Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted May 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round with Cruise was two phone interviews.

The first one stayed pretty basic—my research, why I wanted to work at the company, and general background questions. The second phone screen shifted technical fast, with probing questions about how different algorithms work and what I’d do with different types of data.

Then I went into a live online coding challenge, and it was noticeably pressured: writing code while it felt like someone was watching closely. The technical difficulty wasn’t described to me as “easy,” and the real stress came from the speed and the feeling of being evaluated live.

Even though the interviews covered the

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