I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
After being scouted on LinkedIn, I had a brief phone conversation with an in-house technical recruiter. She was polite and courteous. I had a 45 minute technical interview that started with a description of previous experience and concluded with a coding challenge. The interview went well and I was invited for an onsite in San Francisco.
I had already accepted another offer, so I told them so and they told me to keep in touch if anything changed. Fast forward a few months, and I was unsure about renewal of the contract I had accepted, I reached back out the technical recruiter and, to my honest surprise, they invited me onsite with no additional phone screen necessary. This impressed me.
Now for the onsite: It was scheduled for 4 hours: 4 one-hour sessions, with 15 minutes for wrap-up. Everyone was very friendly, and professional. The culture was very inviting and the technical questions were very balanced; equal parts previous experience, technical breadth, and programming competency.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Construct a dense matrix class in C++ with add and multiply operators.
Given nodes with weights and a set of binary connections between nodes, construct an algorithm that sums the weights of connected nodes for each connection, updates the weight of each node with that sum, and returns the largest weight after realizing each connection.
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
