Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

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

I first connected through a recruiter after being referred, and the recruiter’s tone was unusually friendly—more like a real conversation than a scripted screen.

After that, I did a technical phone screen that was framed as discussion about my background and what the role would look like, then it ended with a coding question that felt intentionally sized so it could be finished in under about fifteen minutes if the approach was right.

The next step was a virtual onsite that ended up being five interviews total. I remember a computer-fundamentals round that mixed domain questions and a coding component, then a systems design conversation that focused on Android-style architecture details like UI components and view-model thinking. There were also two

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