Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews started with a discussion of my previous projects, which felt like they wanted context before jumping into coding.

After that, the coding portion moved into tree data structures, and the session had a casual, informal vibe that made it feel more like a conversation than a formal exam.

The structure I experienced also included resume/project discussion up front, and then time carved out for coding questions. The coding questions themselves were clearly algorithmic, and they split attention so that both my problem-solving approach and my implementation mattered.

I didn’t get an offer, but the process was at least coherent and familiar: projects first, then a couple of concrete coding questions. The tone

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