Rivian

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

April 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process was pretty streamlined. I had two rounds in total:

Initial round: With the recruiter to check alignment and specifics related to the role.
Second round: With a Staff Software Engineer. This focused on a LeetCode Medium problem, asked in a HackerRank environment. The interviewer was super helpful, and if one is good at competitive programming, it should be pretty easy to clear this one.

Questions

This is a LeetCode medium problem that can be solved using a hashmap or heap sort.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Rivian Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

22%

Pass Rate

Rivian's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%

Neutral17%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Rivian's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Rivian Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked Lists

Number of Islands

Medium

Given a grid representing land and water, count the number of distinct islands. An island is formed by connected land cells.

ArraysGraphs

Rotate String

Easy

Determine if a string can be rotated to match another string. You're essentially checking if one string is a shifted version of the other.

Strings