Waymo Software Engineer interview questions

“This wrecked me.” 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.

“Standard opener, I had rehearsed this with a coach so it went fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core idea clicks pretty fast: count frequencies in the target, then walk through the ordering string and append each character the right number of times, then tack on whatever's left.” 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 tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Onsite - Cross-functional / Panel round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with the hash map solution which is the obvious answer, O(n) time and O(k) space where k is distinct values.” 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.

“The problem sounds manageable until you realize there are a bunch of edge cases around how the two signal types interact near interval boundaries.” 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 is the kind of question where you think you know the answer until you're actually saying it out loud.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Waymo, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“It's a variant of that string decode problem on LeetCode but with different syntax.” 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.

“Blanked.” 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 started with the linear scan pretty naturally, just walk the pairs and track a running total until you hit the segment containing p.” 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.