I gave the Nuro phone interview. Interviewer : What are you currently working on? Me: I am working on wireless protocol stack development Interviewer : You receive spec from IEEE and implement it? Me : Yes, and make sure it works on all the Amazon devices and able to connect the wireless device like Wifi router, Bluetooth device, wireless camera etc Interviewer : You receive spec and implement what's the big deal? Me: We have to make sure Amazon devices are fully complaint with industry standard. Interviewer : hmm Next coding challenge: Leetcode like - hard I gave him the working solution Interviewer : Surprised, he said this code should not working, can you please explain. Me : Did dry run, I was using backtracking (recursion), even after explaining he said "your code should not work". I don't know what he was expecting? Anyway Nuro is good startup company but they have to improve their hiring process. If someone ask me "what is big deal in implementing IEEE 802X spec" or for the mater of fact HDMI has spec or any other standard. Is he qualified to take interview? I don't know. Blind tax : YOE 15 TC 450K #nuro #interview
This does not invalidate your experience in any way, I just wanted to add for context: I had the entire SWE interview experience til the offer stage that was very professional, and all the interviewers were respectful and the questions were relevant and fair. Just wanted to add a recent data point. Sorry that happened to you.
Yeah we can be hit or miss in interviews we throw noobs in as interviewers immediately and never look back.
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That sounds rough. We've been hiring really fast and we don't do a lot of training before letting people conduct interviews, so while I'm a little disappointed to hear about this I'm not too surprised. For what it's worth I've enjoyed working at Nuro so far (2ish years there).
Hey I’m expecting an offer and have a quick question that I’m trying to understand. How does Nuro survive a situation where cruise / waymo / zoox decide to build a robot variation that also just does delivery. How can nuro survive if any of these companies pivot?
1. Building a new delivery focused vehicle is a huge effort. Between user studies, design, assembly, and closed course testing we'll have a few years of lead time before they have a hardware platform to challenge us with. 2. We have partner companies that we've been working with for years (Domino's, FedEx, Krogers, Chipotle, and many others), including some firm commitments to use our products. Even if Waymo launched a goods delivery service today we'd still get a chance to work with these partners and be successful.