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%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 20%
Skills test: 8%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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45 minute phone screen followed by an onsite interview. Onsite interview consisted of meeting with three different individuals, primarily doing whiteboarding problems. Two interviewers were engineers, and focused on CS questions, algorithms, and optimizing code. One interviewer was more on the product side, and he asked questions about architecting systems and choosing between technologies for different problems.
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How would you design a system to continuously ingest data being streamed from an autonomous vehicle?
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.