Rivian·Software Engineer

Rivian Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I initially connected with the team, the process started with a recruiter screen where we walked through my resume and what felt like a fit check.

The next step was a hiring-manager conversation, and it set the tone: mostly a discussion of my background and how it mapped to what they needed.

Not long after, I went into technical interviews that felt structured and conversational rather than tricky for the sake of it. One round involved a coding session where the focus was on understanding how I approached the problem and then walking through the thinking behind the solution. Another round leaned conceptual, with questions that didn’t require a ton of memorized facts so much as how I reasoned about the work I’d done. I remember the

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