I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cruise (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
A series of four on-site technical interviews lasting ~4 hours. Cruise has a well-organized recruiting team and the entire interview process was very smooth. My recruiters were eager to answer all of my questions, or set up follow-on meetings for those questions they couldn't answer directly.
Technical interviews were conducted mostly as pair-coding exercises on a provided laptop, with minor excursions onto whiteboard for systems design topics. Interviewers were team leads and were not only evaluating skills but also interest/fit on their teams.
Overall, a very positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a maze as a 2D array, find a path from start to finish (one of many; paraphrasing)
The process was smooth, 6 rounds of process. Behavioral, debugging, coding, hiring manager, system design, process was fast, different teams interviewing you, difficult questions, however people were nice. 3 different offices located in sf and sunnyvale
They did a brief discussion about my experience and resume and asked a hard leetcode problem. The problem was solved almost optimally, but some issues with edge cases, however they pushed for a wierd implementation to solve it. Ended up cancelling the job posting cause someone acccepted it jsut 2 days after. Why interview then??
Applied online with my resume, heard back af ew weeks later. Then I received an invite for an initial 45-minute technical screen. A day later, I passed the interview and after that, I moved on to the final round of interviews which consisted of 45-minute technical and 45-minute behavioural.
