Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up going through about six rounds in total, with interviewers from different teams across San Francisco and Sunnyvale. It felt like the schedule was compressed and I had multiple people assessing me back-to-back.

The content was a mix: behavioral, debugging, hands-on coding, a hiring manager conversation, and then a system design round. The overall difficulty landed in the “difficult” range—there were challenging questions—but the people interviewing me were still genuinely nice. The onsite format also stuck with me: I sat in a room while interviewers came and left, like it was an