I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2023
Interview
The role was infrastructure-focused, so was the interview. The interviewer gave me a hard algorithms / data structure question, then provided me with a solution, and made me implement it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
(Conceptual question) If you're designing a payment system in which there is a central server, how do you ensure a transaction isn't duplicated or ignored by the server? (A client has to send requests and receive responses from the server).
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cruise
Interview
I was asked about my resume, and to describe a project. The interviewer drilled down on a certain technical detail I mentioned in passing and spent about 20 minutes trying to clarify an explanation about it. they didn't seem to understand or accept my correct (I double checked afterwards) explanation of this fairly standard practice.
We then did a 30 minute coding exercise, for which I was able to come up with a working solution, Process felt very subjective, and I was disappointed that I was forced to elaborate on one detail of one past project rather than communicate the breadth of all my projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project you worked on, what your assumptions were and how you evaluated it
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cruise
Interview
A recruiter contacted me. Very unprofessional process, confused about the position and what expectation to have. Answered the question correctly and all follow-ups as well but received a rejection within the next couple of hours.