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Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a recruiter touchpoint and then a technical screening that led to an onsite about a month later.

At the onsite, I brought my own laptop and ran through a couple coding exercises where the interviewer explained the problem, we discussed a solution together, and then I implemented it while running against example inputs. The coding work felt collaborative rather than adversarial, and if I got stuck on something unrelated to the statement they didn’t hesitate to help me get unblocked.

Beyond coding, the onsite also included an architecture design interview where I explained how a service would work on a whiteboard, plus a manager-style conversation about the team and role, and then a

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