I think it’s fair to compare Zoox and Cruise as closely competing self-driving pseudo startaps owned by carmakers and baked by solid investors. If you’ve interviewed for both, what’s your opining about interview bar? Please share the role/department you were interving for.
Cruise interview seems very unprepared and untested. Almost all the interviewers were just 2 or 3 months in the company. I cleared both. I interviewed for firmware engineer and definitely felt zoox was more productive and professional.
Haven't interviewed with Cruise but Zoox's process was pretty long and their bar seems fairly high.
Zoox engineers know their shit.
Cruise has a much more rational business plan, zoox needs another X billion in funding to develop their vehicles to a point where they can be manufactured and approved for the road. They are basically trying to create a Tesla taxi that has L4 autonomy from the start.
As for every interview it's a crapshoot
Cruise is hiring like crazy, their hiring bar is a lot lower
Not really.... interview taken by less experience folks ...who expect perfect working code for LC hard problem in 30 min or less...take more time your are rejected
I never ask LC style questions because it’s fucking stupid and I make sure my opinion on this is known. I’m actually mostly seeing folks pass coding sessions and then bomb design and b&v one but I don’t interview many juniors anymore