Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Aug 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter screen, I moved into a fairly straightforward technical path: one phone interview followed by multiple on-sites.

The overall difficulty ended up feeling average—maybe even a bit easier than I expected—because the coding portion leaned heavily toward classic algorithms and data structures.

On the phone screen, I worked through algorithm-focused questions, and that interview was about an hour. Then the on-site portion added more technical depth through additional coding rounds. What surprised me most was how manageable the coding felt; it wasn’t the kind of interview where I was constantly guessing what they wanted. I spent weeks practicing LeetCode-style problems beforehand, and that preparation aligned

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