J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cruise
Entretien
I have tried to apply online and as a result talked with two different recruiters. Both of them concluded that my experience was not a good fit for what they were looking for despite my experience with control engineering, sensor fusion, motion planning and prediction, embedded development and exposure to real-world electromechanical systems. Well, whatever :)
I have decided to try once more via referral and it was so much better this time. The whole interviewing felt a bit stochastic. I believe it is most likely due to the rapid company growth and HR department being a bit understaffed. I had two phone screenings, on-site and several calls with hiring managers. In the end they were ready to talk about the offer, but I had already accepted another one. Overall, I liked the company, but I also have a feeling that they struggle from the rapid growth and the career trajectory for new hires is not very clear.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
LRU Cache, word search in a grid, go over a high-level system diagram and talk about how to verify and test the system, design a queue etc.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cruise (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Cruise (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Cruise en nov. 2024
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
coding round: lc high frequency hard
HM round: project deep dive