Rivian Software Engineer interview experience

The first step was a hiring-manager call, and then I moved into a panel interview format where I presented slides about a project I’d worked on. That presentation portion came with questions afterward, so it wasn’t just me reading my work—I had to defend choices and walk through tradeoffs.

After that, there was still a mix of fit and technical alignment, but the overall feel was that they cared more about how my background matched the role than about pushing me through hard algorithms. In one of the panel-style rounds, the group came from different teams, and even when the technical depth