Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

I did an initial phone screen, then a coding interview, and soon after I was invited onsite. At the onsite, I met five people across multiple back-to-back conversations. The focus was mostly on problem solving, with a robotics-flavored open question in one of the technical rounds, some planning discussion in another, and live coding plus at least one round that felt more like a genuine conversation than a formal exam. One of the interviewers was noticeably unprofessional—laughing while asking questions and generally trying to make things feel harder than they needed to be.

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