I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Avride (Dallas, TX) in May 2026
Interview
Scheduled today for late morning. The interview set up and background and driver license check was done. Did not take a long time. The driving test is intense. Or that's what I'm told. Really nervous and I think I'm allowing that to gender moving forward with this position.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Avride (Austin, TX) in Mar 2026
Interview
Applied online and got a phone call with the HR pretty quickly. The process is professional and friendly. Asked about technical background and previous projects, not too technical. Company is mainly doing autonomous driving using standard modern set of technologies, AWS, python, .etc
I applied online. I interviewed at Avride in Jan 2026
Interview
A slow and jarring LLM interviewer, by a company called "BrainTrust AIR" screened for some very basic computer science questions.
A few days later I got an automated response that I had not responded to a request to retake the test. I messaged the original contact about this and they said that a request had indeed been sent (checked my email, no it hadn't) and that I should reapply.
I chalked it up to some miscommunication and decided I would give the AI another go so I reapplied the following morning.
After letting the contact know I soon got a response that they did not like the results of the first AI interview and would not be moving forward.
It seems like this company has some weird automation approaches in their workflows. Getting past the AI voice will be your biggest challenge, or maybe that's just me, I'm perfectly fine chatting with ChatGPT or Grok. If this type of interview happens again in the future I think I'll mute it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe threads vs processes, something about vectors, other very basic stuff that a recent grad would know.
