Autonomy Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Skydio with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Autonomy Engineer roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Skydio overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Skydio as a Autonomy Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Background check: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Skydio (San Mateo, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
The interview process consisted of a recruiter screen, take-home, a conceptual interview, then a coding interview. The coding interview was preferred to do in C++. The take-home took around 10 hours to complete.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Conceptual Interview was less about asking you concepts and more about you describing your past projects.
I applied online. I interviewed at Skydio (San Mateo, CA)
Interview
three rounds of interview, second was technical coding round. First and third were talk with the team managers. It was a great and good experience. Questions were exciting and moderate difficulty
had a hr call, then a take home assignment then a technical interview based on basics of my resume and the planning related questions. the take home assignment was easy but did not clearly mention the expectations so had to go over board for the solutions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Quarterions, rotation matrices, pros and cons of each representation