Zoox·Software Engineer

Zoox Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

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

I remember the recruiter being responsive and easy to coordinate with, and the phone screen felt like a quick blitz of C++ and OOP trivia right away.

After that there was an OOP design question. I messed up a string implementation and couldn’t get to a working solution in time, which hurt my chances. Even so, the recruiter followed up with feedback quickly, and that responsiveness made the experience feel less frustrating than it could’ve been.

In another phone screen style interview, the interviewer didn’t really introduce themselves much and started asking C++ questions immediately. The interview felt less communicative and more like a test: they’d ask a question, wait for an answer, then move on. The C++ questions weren’t described as

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