Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cruise with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 42 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cruise overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cruise as a Software Engineer according to 42 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 8%
Group panel interview: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Background check: 3%
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I have had a chance to be interviewed by Cruise for backend software engineer position. I got a call from HR recruiter and they send me a HackerRank online test which was easy and completed. Very next day, I received a call from HR for next round of telephonic interview. The interview was scheduled in the next week and the interviewer was added in the notes. It was changed just before 30 minutes of the interview which is ok to me. But when I received the call, I found some other person taking my interview.
The interview started with a normal way with an introduction and the coding question. The question was easy and had the flexibility to chose the preferred language. .Had to write a program and test with different input. In the end, while I asked about the project, the interviewer said, she is new and does not have knowledge about the backend. It is not a general software position and should have shared information of project/job.
The process was smooth, 6 rounds of process. Behavioral, debugging, coding, hiring manager, system design, process was fast, different teams interviewing you, difficult questions, however people were nice. 3 different offices located in sf and sunnyvale
They did a brief discussion about my experience and resume and asked a hard leetcode problem. The problem was solved almost optimally, but some issues with edge cases, however they pushed for a wierd implementation to solve it. Ended up cancelling the job posting cause someone acccepted it jsut 2 days after. Why interview then??
Applied online with my resume, heard back af ew weeks later. Then I received an invite for an initial 45-minute technical screen. A day later, I passed the interview and after that, I moved on to the final round of interviews which consisted of 45-minute technical and 45-minute behavioural.