Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

The technical phone interview used a shared code editor where we discussed my experience briefly and then worked through a coding question that required compilation/execution. What stood out to me was how “conversation-like” it felt; the interviewers seemed comfortable taking questions and talking through approaches instead of just grilling me for one perfect answer.

After that, I headed to San Francisco for onsite interviews, and it was structured as a handful of technical sessions with a short wrap-up with the recruiter. In the onsite, I did whiteboard coding and the questions covered both