Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop began with a technical interview that felt tightly scoped, especially compared to what I expected from the typical coding rounds.

A recruiter was explicit about it being an ML-focused interview covering neural networks, which was a bit surprising given how the conversation actually played out. Once the session started, the questions turned into a more standard algorithm-style coding interview, and I ended up working through an algo problem flow.

Later in the same overall vibe of interviews, another stage leaned into a code walkthrough format. I used a coding interface to go through my code, and the problem centered on a loop structure that interacted with an interrupt mechanism. The feedback I got afterward was mixed:

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