Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

This one was a full-day onsite that started with a recruiter chat that felt friendly but a bit unprofessional.

After that, I had a technical phone screen, and then the process moved into almost five onsite interviews—two coding sessions, two system design sessions, and one behavioral interview. It was grueling in the way that comes from nonstop switching contexts and trying to stay sharp for hours.

A lot of the experience around it felt off: I noticed leveling seemed inconsistent with the years of experience being interviewed, and at least one interviewer came across as outright rude. My phone screen interviewer also seemed distracted, looking at their phone the whole time while I was talking. On top

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