Hi, I have a cruise automation interview for senior swe? What should I expect and what should I more focus on?
Interviewed at Cruise. Eng all told me the product would never launch. Meh
I think the irrational exuberance over AVs is declining. That’s why Waymo, Zoox, and Cruise have all started to ramp up their marketing efforts. At least now maybe they’ll be more transparent on realistic AV deployment timelines
Also management is so stuck up, they want you to come to the office and not take safeguards for the pandemic.
Avoid.
Could you elaborate? Are all teams awful or are there some teams that are decent WLB?
If you want to work in a chaotic environment with toxic leadership, you’ll find it here at Cruise. Not all teams are awful, there are some good ones in both AV and Infra. But the biggest problem in projects at Cruise is hacks are rewarded over building something solid, robust solutions which may take longer. You never get really do solid work here as a result. A few vocal people can shut down your projects because they have more influence. The hiring decisions over the last year have been shocking. The bar has been lowered significantly and we have lot of mediocrity here and serious lack of cultural fit among teams. Now they’ve scaled back the hiring but it’s too late.
Cruise is not a good company
Can you provide some more information
Cruise is good for playing politics. The loudest individuals get rewarded and promoted. Engineers who cannot sell their projects will be calibrated down. This means partial or zero bonus and no promotion. You see half baked projects full of bugs being forced down other teams throats. All this so you can sending company wide email announcing victory. This creates bad engineering culture. Our core values are “stay safe” and “work together”. I see none of those here. The company is in cost cutting mode. There are rumors of layoffs and reorgs.
Cruise is toxic. Only come if you are jerk
Avoid Cruise, its a sinking ship with jerks running the show
I made it to the onsite last year but the interview was rescinded to instead focus on “leadership positions”. Take that as a sign!!
How are the non software teams at Cruise? I.e. Systems, Safety, Vehicle, etc are they all similar to the experiences described above?
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Deployment timeline isn’t pretty. Believe in the dream AVs are coming... 2030
That report is not true. There’s no Amazon or FB in it.