Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Jul 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter reached out to me through LinkedIn and after a call we moved forward for a full stack role.

A few days later I was invited to do a full loop, and that’s where the first weirdness hit: the role had quietly been switched to backend, and I only realized the day before the onsite. The phone screen went over my background and then had me solve a coding question on CoderPad (a 2Sum style problem).

The onsite was four parts, but it didn’t feel focused. The interview room was right next to a factory/warehouse and the noise was constant and distracting while I was trying to write and test code. During the wrap-up, I mentioned it to the recruiter, and she brushed it off like I must’ve done

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