CloudKitchens Interview Questions
& Process
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CloudKitchens
People Analytics
Lead Average Negative experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Presentation Technical screen Background check
Interview formats
Technical Presentation Coding
The interview process was kind of a mess. It was supposed to be 3 rounds and a skills assessment, but it ended up being 5 rounds, plus a crazy 20-hour HR strategy deck, and then a 90-minute in-person presentation of that deck, and another coding skills assessment. Honestly, it felt like they were just getting free consulting work done. A quick look at LinkedIn and their site shows the job is gone and they didn't hire anyone. Be careful with places that give you 3 pages of single-spaced questions, ask you to 'edit' your slides before a 90-minute presentation, and then the HR manager disappears for 2 weeks. This place is like the WeWork of food.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Describe your strategy for creating an analytical system that helps business leaders and their teams proactively manage talent.
- Outline your full process for developing, deploying, managing, and decommissioning People Analytics projects, using examples of your past work.
- Explain how you would manage and mentor a team of junior analysts, focusing on their emotional intelligence and professional development within a flat organizational structure, providing examples from your experience.
CloudKitchens
Software Engineer
Staff Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
I applied through LinkedIn and a recruiter reached out. They gave me a take-home assignment. The assignment involved a REST API and a seed; I had to run my code against the seed and submit the results. A test harness would then indicate if my output passed or failed. There were a few issues: first, they apparently didn't pull my latest code, even though I submitted it before the deadline. Second, it seemed like the team confused parallel processing with concurrency. Third, they claimed the tests weren't passing, despite me running them for days. Finally, even though I based my solution on well-known open-source software, it was still considered invalid. The process basically involves a recruiter contact followed by a take-home assignment where you use a provided REST API with a seed, run your code, and submit it for testing. The test harness tells you if you pass or fail.
Confirmed questions1 question
- A take-home assignment that can be completed using any backend programming language.
CloudKitchens
Sales Enablement Specialist
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Take home Presentation Panel
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Case Presentation
The interview process was pretty structured with several stages. First, I had a 45-minute chat with a Talent Acquisition Specialist. Then, about a week later, I talked to the Sales Enablement Manager for 30 minutes. Another week passed, and I had a 30-minute interview with the Senior Instructional Designer. After that, I interviewed with the Local Sales Manager for another 30 minutes. The next step was a case study, which took me almost two weeks to finish. The final stage was a one-hour panel interview where I presented my case study to everyone I'd spoken to before, plus the Global Sales Director. The whole thing took over six weeks.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Can you share a difficult experience from your career and how you handled it?
- Could you describe your professional background and your motivation for applying to this position?
- What are your thoughts on salary expectations for this role?
CloudKitchens
Operations Manager
Mid Average Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
I applied for the AOM position and sent an aggressive cover letter (I was confident that the job was the right one for me). A CloudKitchens internal recruiter called me the next day and we talked for about 30 minutes. Several days later I did back-to-back interviews with two different senior operations managers. They were both really nice and did a great job of describing the company and the position and asked a bunch of situational questions to see how I would handle all kinds of problems and emergencies (which is definitely what you need to do in this job).
Confirmed questions1 question
- Why do you want to work here?
CloudKitchens Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from CloudKitchens interview reports.
“What's your estimate for the number of cloud kitchens that could be established in your local area?”
Read reports →“What would be the output of this code snippet written in a custom language?”
Read reports →“What actions would you take if you were unable to reach the owner?”
Read reports →“Given a dataset of food orders and items, what business insights can you derive?”
Read reports →“Could you design a system to parse menu data from a restaurant platform, where each menu is a stream of strings, items are multi-line, and separated by an empty string? For example: 123 CATEGORY Lunch Specials 456 DISH Burger 8.99 123 789 OPTION Extra Cheese 0.99 456”
Read report →“What are the critical factors that determine the success or failure of this deal?”
Read report →“Given some numbers, can you explain how you would calculate the profit and loss for a facility?”
Read report →“Could you build a fully functional concurrent system that also includes full testing?”
Read report →“Tell me what you know about the cloud kitchen industry and what's happening in it right now.”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
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