Zoox Software Engineer interview experience

I was contacted first through LinkedIn and then went into a preliminary phone conversation where the interviewer asked about my background and résumé, including details from my PhD, and also invited me to ask questions at the end.

Next came a structured phone screen that leaned into Python or C++ trivia and then a design problem. The format was consistent: there was a chunk of language knowledge questions—around the first 20 to 25 minutes—followed by object-oriented design work where I had to produce something that could run and produce a correct answer within the time.

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