Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

I went through multiple rounds where the questions weren’t just “solve a puzzle,” but “show you can reason about ML concepts and apply them.” One round covered general ML fundamentals like classification and regression, and it also dug into things such as loss functions. Another part of the ML portion was more design-oriented, asking me to structure an ML approach. I also got pulled into discussion about my own research, which felt less like a standalone test and more like a conversation.

After that came computer vision, where the round mixed domain-specific knowledge with a similar ML