Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

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My onsite for the software engineering role was centered on multiple technical rounds: three coding rounds and one system design round.

The first coding round started with an interviewer showing me a version of code that had issues, and I had to identify the bugs and rewrite the relevant parts.

The second coding round leaned into string-focused dynamic programming and pattern matching, which were presented verbally rather than just being laid out as a written prompt. The third coding round shifted toward object-oriented design, focusing on differential-style design questions.

I also had a system design round as part of the same loop, and overall it was challenging in a way that matched the mix of skills they

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