I applied online. I interviewed at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2026
Interview
3 Rounds. First is recruiter screen, second is behavioral interview (resume walkthrough), third is technical interview. Recruiter screen was pretty simple, just review through your resume enough and have good questions for the recruiter. Behavioral was average difficulty. Have STAR stories ready for every part of your resume. Still waiting on technical
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's a time you had to learn something really quickly in a work environment?
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in May 2025
Interview
There are 3 interviews after submiting your CV:
1. HR interview
2. Algoritma interview
3. Role-specific interview (in my case it was ML theory interview)
After all that you will get feedback
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the Algorithms interview they gave me 2 leetcode medium level problems.
In the 3rd interview it was Logistic,linear regression, neural networks theory and a bit of computer vision theory.
I interviewed at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies in Feb 2025
Interview
An HR screening just to explain what's coming up, and 2 back-to-back technical interviews. Interviews are conducted by a team. It is hired by the team instead of the program. Team matching was already done before hr reached out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past Project Experience; resume stuff; general engineering stuff
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies interviews FAQs
Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 27%
Background check: 18%
Phone interview: 18%
Presentation: 9%
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