Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Los Angeles, CAPosted Jul 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The technical side of my interviews felt fine, even enjoyable.

The interviewer was friendly and I had a good conversation with a paired programming exercise that felt like we were genuinely working through ideas together. It left me confident about that part.

But the recruiting experience fell apart. After a recruiter call that went through surface-level niceties, I spent weeks reaching out by email and phone just to get basic status updates. The messages were ignored, and the whole process dragged longer than it should have.

As a person of color without a PhD from a top university, I couldn’t stop myself from wondering whether professionalism would

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