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      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      17 Dec 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Cambridge, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at CarGurus (Cambridge, MA) in Sept 2021

      Interview

      Quick phone screen. Followed by a code pen FE screen share technical. Invitation onsite where I white boarded a fetch API. I then had to white board a small sorting JS problem.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe and whiteboard the previous project you worked on.
      Answer question

      Other Sr. Software Engineer interview reviews for CarGurus

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      19 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CarGurus

      Interview

      I was approached by the CarGurus sourcer on LinkedIn and then introduced to a recruiter. Initial phone call went well. Had a phone screen with one of the engineers on the team. Cleared it as the questions were very easy and was asked for availability for onsite. They have 2 virtual rounds and 2 in person rounds. For the 2 virtual rounds one of the interviewers wasn’t prepared well. She had some weird question and when asked for clarification she kept blabbering about the use case instead of the intrinsic details of the problem. For the in person onsite they asked me for the availability and after confirming I couldn’t attend due to health reason and respectfully asked to postpone the date. I was given a new date but this time again postponed due to a team member not being available. When I asked for new date, I didn’t hear back from them for a week and later received a rejection email. Very unprofessional behavior I must say.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Basic SQL queries . DataStruxtures and algorithms
      Answer question
      1

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      4 Mar 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at CarGurus

      Interview

      Typical screening call with a recruiter followed by a one hour technical interview. During the technical interview neither interviewees turned their camera on which was rather disrespectful. The technical questions weren’t difficult but when I would try to further clarify my answer I would get cut off and rushed to the next question. Overall a strange experience and will not be moving forward with this company.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Basic SQL statements, table joins etc
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Spring annotations - @Autowired @Transactional
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Easy Leetcode - debugging a loop
      Answer question
      3

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      9 Jan 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at CarGurus

      Interview

      Interview contained 2 parts: - live coding: simple SQL tasks, 1 task from leetcode and 1 open task for tree knowledge - something like system design interview. Interviewer described me a problem and I suggested different approaches, but each time I tried to propose any other option, he kept asking only about caching approach. Didn't like that part to be honest. At the end there were also general questions like "describe yours hardest task".

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Medium task form leetcode (implement min stack)
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Describe yours hardest task on yours previous project
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Did you have conflicts with coworkers on previous project.
      Answer question
      2

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