Nuro Software Engineer interview experience

In the phone screen, I went through a quick background/current-work discussion, and then the main event was a hard, backtracking-style problem that felt more like a LeetCode challenge than something purely practical. I remember the interviewer sounding doubtful at points about the approach, like they were trying to see whether the reasoning held together.

The next stage followed a similar cadence but ramped up the pressure: a structured video interview with an intro, then a dedicated coding challenge, and then follow-up questions. I wasn’t able to convince them fully, even though I believed