The Interview process is unprofessional, disrespectful and hypocritical.
1st round, the main interviewer is missing. only shadow interviewer is there. and give me a very uninterested problem to solve. After finished the code, the interviewer said it's good and will work.
2nd round. system design. I am asking questions to clarify the problem. and the interviewer keeps saying its a great question and he seems agree me a lot with my designs.
3rd. HM interview, running late and saying they are too busy and he only can stay 20mins. Ask me few BQ questions and then try to running away without any basic respect.
4th round, they just say the interviewer can not make it, and then whole interview are done ridiculously.
It's totally waste of time. good luck to Cruise having these bunch of people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
general coding question but the most boring one.
system design may related to their team work.
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.
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
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.