Xiaopeng

Large Enterprises

Xiaopeng (XPeng) is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer that designs and produces smart electric cars with a strong focus on autonomous driving technology and in-car software. The company is a publicly traded major player in China's EV market, known for its advanced driver-assistance systems and connected vehicle features.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Xiaopeng·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Interviewed for a Data Engineer role at Xiaopeng and got hit with an LRU Cache implementation question. The interviewer was even nice enough to say a linked list wasn't required, but I still managed to freeze up completely and couldn't produce anything useful on the spot. Figured it out about five minutes after leaving the room.

Implement an LRU Cache. An array-based approach is acceptable; no need for a linked list.

“The interviewer basically handed me a lifeline by saying I could skip the linked list version, and I still froze.”

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Xiaopeng·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Interviewed for a software engineer role at Xiaopeng and got hit with a numerical computing question that exposed a gap in my prep. Didn't go great.

Implement the softmax (normalized exponential) function.

“Got the basic version down fine but then they pushed on numerical stability and I fumbled.”

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Xiaopeng·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026

Technical phone screen for a software engineer role at Xiaopeng. No recruiter call beforehand, jumped straight into a hard coding problem. The interviewer was pleasant but the rejection email came two days later anyway.

Given a matrix, find the maximum sum rectangle no larger than a target value (LeetCode Hard 363).

“My first instinct was slightly wrong.”

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