Zoox Software Engineer interview experience

After a phone screen, I went through a four-round onsite where references were part of the flow, and I had a hiring manager chat and then a director-level conversation. Scheduling was very structured: after each round, the recruiter set up another call and always began by asking how I felt about the previous interview. That repetition got exhausting faster than I expected.

The timeline stretched out over more than two months end to end, and after the onsite it still took about a month to get to an offer decision. What stayed with me most was how the recruiter framed things once they knew I