Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted May 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I reached out through LinkedIn and the process started with a tech recruiter who went deep into my background, then sent me a HackerRank test the next day.

The HackerRank had three questions: they were all interesting, with one that felt a bit harder than the others. I moved into a phone interview with an architect, where they gave me a primary problem to solve and then drilled into code-related questions.

What surprised me was the speed and the style of feedback—followed by a result that didn’t quite match how the coding went. A few days later the tech recruiter contacted me again and said I wasn’t the best fit even though they felt I did well. When I asked what held me back, the feedback stayed vague and centered on needing someone more

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