I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CloudKitchens (Los Angeles, CA) in Jul 2019
Interview
Flew to an onsite, then decided they didn't want to move forward in the middle of the day and kicked me out of the building. Never got feedback regarding why. I was left to wander around LA in the middle of the summer for 5 hours before arranging my own transportation to the airport.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a completely blank IDE project, write a production-ready product handle incoming orders and food tracking.
First interaction is an HR Call talking about compensation which is not liquid. Then comes a take home assignment to create a multi-threaded kitchen delivery system. They say not to use AI yet even after spending hours on it there is no feedback given. Not worth interviewing, your time is better spent elsewhere
Had an initial call with HR. Mostly just going over my experience and housekeeping questions. Next round was technical coding round over zoom. I wasn't able to clear this round.
Quite intense to finish within an hour with explanation of the thought process + design decision
Line 0: The ID of the item
Line 1: The item type, either CATEGORY, DISH or OPTION
Line 2: The name of the item
Line 3: The price of the item for DISH and OPTION. Not present for CATEGORY items.
api interface function: menu parser, OOD.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are tasked with parsing menus from a large restaurant group.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at CloudKitchens with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 23% positive. To compare, the company-average is 32.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CloudKitchens overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CloudKitchens as a Software Engineer according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 13%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
Other: 4%
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