Rivian·Software Engineer

Rivian Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a staff engineer role at Rivian through a referral, and that early signal mattered because the manager and recruiter both responded positively.

Still, the panel experience ended up being a different story. The interviewers were newer engineers themselves, and the questions leaned toward fundamentals—things like basic equations and whiteboarding-style problems that felt closer to an engineering school setting than to day-to-day system design.

With about a dozen years of experience, I tried to bring my best work ethic to the board, but the way the questions were framed didn’t line up with what I expected for that level. I answered as strongly as I could, but I didn’t move forward. Honestly, it felt like the bar wasn’t only about

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