Waymo·Software Engineer

Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews kicked off with a quick, friendly introduction, then it straight into coding.

Each round started with some back-and-forth about what we were doing, and at the end I got the chance to ask questions to the interviewer. The coding pace was intense enough that I really had to pay attention to details rather than just “solve the idea.”

In the technical rounds, I worked through two coding questions per round, and the interviewers were specifically focused on edge cases. One live C++ coding session emphasized clean syntax, correct and compilable code under time pressure, and the practical basics—data structures, language fundamentals, time complexity, and handling tricky

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