Cruise Systems Engineer interview experience

I started with a recruiter touchpoint and then ran into two technical interviews/tests where I mostly sat through Python coding rounds with different engineers. What threw me off was how little attention there was to me as a person—I wasn’t really asked about my experience at all during that time.

The bigger problem was the overall experience quality. There was also a separate interview where the video setup was awkward and my clarifying questions met long stretches of silence, which made it feel disorganized rather than thoughtful. And in another stretch, the recruiter coordination itself