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Jerry.ai is an AI-powered app that helps consumers compare and manage car insurance, offering quotes from multiple providers to find lower rates. It later expanded into broader car ownership services, including financing and maintenance, and is known for its all-in-one auto expense management platform.

4 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Jerry.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Had a technical screen at Jerry.ai for a software engineering role and got thrown a curveball about GPS internals. Not what I was expecting at all, and my answer showed it.
  • Can you explain how GPS works, including how signals propagate and where errors come from (like the mismatch between a satellite's atomic clock and the clock on a consumer device)?

“I fumbled through this pretty badly.”

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Jerry.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Interviewed for a software engineer role at Jerry.ai and got a string manipulation problem that looked deceptively simple at first glance. The follow-up asking for a linear time solution is where things got interesting.
  • Given two lowercase strings, determine whether the target string can be produced from the source string using at most one operation (insert a character, delete a character, replace one character with another, or move a character to a different position). Output a valid operation if one exists, 'no_change' if the strings are already equal, or 'impossible' if no single operation works.

“I started by just enumerating the cases based on length difference, which got me pretty far.”

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Jerry.ai·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

May 2026
OA for a software engineer role at Jerry.ai. One string manipulation problem that seemed manageable until it wasn't.
  • Given two strings, determine if one can be transformed into the other using exactly one operation (add a character, remove a character, replace a character, or move a character to a different position). If yes, output which operation was used.

“The add and replace cases weren't too bad to reason through.”

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Jerry.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026
Had a technical screen at Jerry.ai for a software engineer role. One question, pretty conceptual, not a coding problem at all which I wasn't expecting.
  • Can you explain how GPS determines a device's location? Walk through how satellites and the receiver work together, how signal travel time factors in, why clock precision matters, and where errors can creep in.

“I knew the basics but stumbled when they pushed on the clock accuracy piece.”

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