Zoox·Software Engineer

Zoox Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first technical steps exposed me to a very specific kind of friction: the remote interview platform and materials.

During one remote screen, the skeleton code had errors that kept showing up across problems. At first I wondered if the mistakes were intentional, but the same issue persisted, which made the whole experience feel less like assessment and more like troubleshooting.

Across the rounds, I also noticed a theme that the questions tended to be fairly general for software roles—often leetcode-style problems, object-oriented coding prompts, and even some riddles—rather than tightly role-specific content. One coding interview I did emphasized object-oriented concepts like polymorphism and

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