Waymo interview notes, page 5 of 9

“Classic Dijkstra setup.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went with a sorted list of merged intervals and a running total of covered length.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a second to even figure out where to start.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went with a trie, which felt like the obvious move.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one threw me a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the basic generator working fine, two variables, yield, loop forever.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went with a story about a team that was kind of invisible before I joined, no one really knew what we did.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The aliasing one is sneaky.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Waymo, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I said yes too quickly and then had to walk it back.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent the first few minutes just re-reading the problem because I kept thinking it was a shortest-path thing.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Waymo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.