Waymo Software Engineer interview experience

After talking with a recruiter, I waited a couple of weeks for a phone screening and then another couple of weeks for the onsite. The overall timeline made it feel drawn out, but the conversations themselves were still tough in a recognizable way.

At the onsite, I experienced the hardest part of the loop as challenging but not impossible. It was the kind of evaluation where you had to be confident under pressure, and the format pushed beyond just memorizing solutions—it rewarded people who could actually keep going and produce a correct result. Afterward, I got to the point where it seemed