Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Right away, the technical part caught me off guard.

I joined what was supposed to be a software engineering interview, but the first round included an ML-related question, and I wasn’t ready for that shift in framing. Even though the interviewer was polite, I struggled to land the problem the way they expected.

The next part of the experience felt more painful than productive. The prompts were the kind that can stretch to the edges of the time limit, and I had trouble getting to a complete result within the 45-minute window. One question in particular felt very long and unforgiving; I could follow the main idea, but it still wasn’t enough,

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