Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Mountain View, CAPosted May 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews felt like the classic Waymo engineering loop, starting with a recruiter call and then stepping into tech conversations.

I had an initial recruiter discussion, followed by a hiring-manager style conversation, and then a technical phone screen that focused on work/project context.

From there, the technical rounds were very coding-centered. I ran into a live coding session with arrays, and I was allowed to Google syntax while coding in Python. Other rounds felt closer to an interview where I had to talk through algorithm thinking, and one day I did multiple onsite rounds in one block—morning sessions, a lunch break with the manager, then more technical rounds afterward. Overall, it felt like the process was

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