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      Product Designer Interview

      6 Nov 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2019

      Interview

      Pretty normal design interview process. It was very similar process to Facebook if you've gone through that loop as well. I think they have a lot of ex-facebook designers and recruiters. I was contacted by recruiter (who was awesome and helpful) and had a screen with the recruiter within a few days. Very simple recruiter screen: told me what the team was looking for, what the team's makeup was, and I discussed briefly about myself. Got feedback fairly quickly (1 day) and moved onto Round 1 (past works 45 minute video conference). Video conference you need to present 1-2 projects by screen sharing via google hangouts. Recruiter helped a lot and sent a lot of information before the presentation. I was mislead a tad. Recruiter sent me an email saying "Don't spend more than 5 minutes to talk about the process. We can ask more about this if we need to dig deeper." This confused me since interaction design is all about the process. I asked a designer friend who said their team is changing their hiring to be similar (more results focused instead of process focused). So I took this to heart and mainly presented the final work and talking about why I made certain decisions. This was wrong. When I mentioned skipping the process to get to the final shipped product one of the reviewers muttered "well that's the most important part" under his breath. Since this was a keynote presentation it was hard to unskip it and show the nitty gritty process pieces. I think there might be a disconnect between what recruiter thinks they're looking for and what the design team is actually looking for. It's very possible the recruiter just sees what doesn't work (UX designers with too much process/weak visuals) so trust your gut. I didn't make it past this step (feedback within a day) but it was very helpful in refining my presentation for future interviews. Feedback was an email & not a call which was fine.

      Interview questions [11]

      Question 1

      Why Cruise
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      Question 2

      What was your role on this project? Who did you collaborate with? How did you divide up the work?
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      Question 3

      What other solutions did you try?
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      Question 4

      What are the pros and cons of this direction?
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      Question 5

      What were some of the constraints you had?
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      Question 6

      What was your process for coming to this conclusion?
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      Question 7

      How did you evaluate the success of this?
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      Question 8

      Were there any decisions you had to fight for? How did you do that?
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      Question 9

      If you could do this project again, what would you do differently?
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      Question 10

      What was the toughest problem to solve? Why?
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      Question 11

      What did you learn from this project?
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      24 May 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Phone screen, hiring manager interview, then loop interview. The team’s great, filled with smart people and a responsive/courteous recruiter. Learned a lot from the process and it was a great experience.

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      Application

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      9 Jun 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
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      Application

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      Interview

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      Do you have any experience with consumer app design?
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