Senior 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 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 53 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 53 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 7%
Skills test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 2%
Background check: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2021
Interview
I was referred to Cruise by someone I know. Recruiter contacted me a week after applying.
The overall interview experience was amazing. The recruiter was friendly and wanted to form a connect straight away.
After a discussion with the recruiter, I was scheduled for a technical phone screen. This was more of a discussion around my experience, what cruise does, what would be job be if hired, etc. Ending with a coding question. The question was hard enough to gauge your problem solving skills and easy enough to be completed under 15 minutes, if done correctly.
Apparently the interviewer liked me a lot and got a call from recruiter the next morning to schedule a virtual onsite. It had a total of 5 interviews.
- Basic computer fundamentals: Standard Software Engineer interview, domain knowledge questions followed by a coding question.
- Systems Design: Android focused systems design, talked about UI components, View Models, etc.
- 2 Android coding exercises: working with the interviewers to write code in Android
- Behavioral: Discussion with hiring manager.
Overall the interview experience was good and I enjoyed interviewing with cruise. A lot to learn.
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Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Cruise
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The interview process consisted of an initial recruiter screen followed by a technical phone interview focused on data structures and problem-solving in Python. The onsite loop included 4 rounds: one coding round (medium LeetCode-style problem), one system design round focused on building a scalable ML data processing pipeline, one backend/API design round, and one behavioral round. Interviewers emphasized real-world problem solving, tradeoffs, and communication. Overall, the process was structured and aligned with large-scale distributed systems and ML infrastructure.
Online submission. Then contacted by recruiter. The phone screening, and then onsite, which lasted an entire day in San Francisco office. Sat in a room while interviewers came and left.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
generic questions, nothing to really test what I knew. The interviewers seemed to not know how to interview a candidate and what to look for. I didn't want to work there after what i saw.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cruise in Nov 2024
Interview
The interview process consisted of a one-hour coding challenge followed by a one-hour deep dive with the hiring manager.
The coding challenge involved solving a LeetCode hard-level problem,
The discussion with the hiring manager focused on previous experience. Mismatch in chemistry. Rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
coding round: lc high frequency hard
HM round: project deep dive