Zoox·Software Engineer

Zoox Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Foster City, CAPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an email from the recruiter and had a call with them, then a short call with the hiring manager.

After that, I was invited to a four-hour onsite interview that included lunch. The format started with a presentation and then moved into six separate one-on-one conversations. During the onsite, only two people showed up for the presentation portion, and afterward a lot of the one-on-ones felt mismatched—questions about Ethernet and SOC that didn’t connect well with my background. One interviewer seemed disengaged and referenced information from a phone mid-interview, and the other interviewer came from a hardware background.

After a few days I received a rejection email. The most memorable

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