Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

The onsite ran as four separate one-hour sessions, all around the same cadence and style—one system design / architecture conversation, one behavioral session with an engineering manager, and two coding interviews. It felt structured and clearly segmented, which I appreciated because it gave me a sense of what to expect each time.

The system design interview focused on architecture, and the manager behavioral round was centered on how I worked, what I’d done, and how I handled different situations. The two coding interviews were the most technical part of the day; I went into them with the