Cruise·Software Engineer

Cruise Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first touch with Cruise was pretty direct: a phone screening that was fairly standard, then a more technical round where I worked on a controls/time-delay style challenge.

I had to design a controller for the system, and the next day I was already emailed back with a fast response. After that, the following round drilled deeply into my resume work, with very detailed questions—so detailed that it even went into things like stability proof details for the controller I had designed.

Even though I felt like I explained my work thoroughly and it went well, they told me the next week that it wasn’t a good fit. The biggest gut-punch was that the decision felt disconnect from how carefully I was walking through the technical reasoning.

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