Cruise Software Engineer interview experience (2018)

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call where she talked about multiple roles and quickly identified a team that seemed like a fit, then set up an initial phone screen with a hiring manager that focused heavily on managerial and behavioral questions.

After that, I moved into a technical coding phone screen with a Staff Engineer.

That technical round felt off from the start. He struggled to explain what the problem was and what the expected input/output should be, and I had to keep asking about the details—what I was given, what I needed to produce. I walked through how I planned to solve it anyway, but he didn’t give meaningful feedback about whether my direction matched what he wanted. When I finished coding, the output didn’t match his expectation, even though I’d tried to clarify the requirements while working.

I left feeling like

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