Crusoe Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience — In-Person Onsite with a PPT Deep Dive

Crusoe·Software Engineer·Jan 2026
OnsiteTechnical ScreenSenior+Offermedium

Phone screen (Coding)
Question:
Print a binary tree, using * to represent missing nodes. Leaf nodes need to be separated by one space, and then going up, each parent node should be placed in the middle position between its child nodes.

Onsite
System Design: Design Slack
Coding: Similar to a LeetCode problem (they scrambled the name to dodge the forum filter), except the input is one long string instead of a 2D array.
Project Deep Dive: best to prepare a PPT deck for this one.
HM round: mostly chatting about each other's backgrounds to see if it's a match.

This company does in-person onsites. If you drive, you can park in the building's garage — there's a "Lot Full" sign out front, but you can actually still park inside. That saves you the trouble of hunting for street parking. Parking is reimbursable.

Last thing — does anyone who knows the company want to weigh in on whether it's worth joining right now? I heard they're prepping for an IPO since they hired MongoDB's former CFO. I'm currently a senior on a big cloud team, and the role I interviewed for is also a senior cloud role — the work is almost identical to what I do now. The one difference is the HM's scope is about the same size as my current org's scope. As for the package, base is about the same as what I have now, but once you factor in equity, total comp is about $100K less than my current total. I'm not totally sure how much upside there is in the equity. Thanks!

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Interview at a glance

Company
Crusoe
Role
Software Engineer
Level
Senior+
Rounds
Technical Screen → Onsite
Outcome
Offer
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Jan 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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