Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Sep 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the process thinking it would be straightforward, and early on it felt like the bar was about execution.

In one coding round, I actually implemented what they asked and got the expected output, and I verbalized my thought process while working through it. Everything was working by the end, yet I still received a generic rejection email.

In another similar step, I made it through the HR screen and then the technical screener, and I got stuck on a LeetCode-style medium problem. That one was clearly a miss in the moment, but what was uncomfortable was how quickly it moved to a “not moving forward” signal without any meaningful conversation.

The common thread for me was that the evaluation felt

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