A recruiter from Cruise reached out to me via email. I responded and had an intro call, and then a technical phone screen a few days (a week?) later. Then we scheduled an onsite, which went like this: - Met with the engineering team manager (for the role) and talked about a lot of "not strictly technical" stuff - Systems design interview - Front-end web fundamentals "skills assessment"-type interview - "Bar raiser" interview Onsite lasted about 4 hours and was honestly a pleasant experience. Everyone was very on-time and professional throughout the whole process. I waited a week to hear back after the final interview and was asked to come in for a follow-up interview which was scheduled really soon after. Heard back again 2 days after that.

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.