The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Waymo (Sunnyvale, CA)
Interview
Ghosted by Waymo after on-site interview, assuming no hire but IDK. Similar to the rest of Alphabet, Waymo gives programming language-specific questions during interviews, which limits ones ability to demonstrate expertise as a candidate. One needs to be an expert in the interviewer’s chosen domain + language, your expertise is irrelevant.
As other interview feedback below indicates, brush up on C++
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system which coordinates elevators in a building (commercial or residential)
Short introduction to yourself and interviewer then start coding.
Ask some questions to interviewer at the end.
Two coding questions in a round, be well prepared to edge cases because they really focus on it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a variable Page, which contains a list of words, a variable Book, which contains a list of pages, and a variable SynonymGroup containing groups of words. (Imagine they are all 2d array of string)
Write a function Print(string data), data is in Book, that output the page index and word index(in SynonymGroup) of data.
I applied online. I interviewed at Waymo in Apr 2026
Interview
Some interviewers are good while some are not. They expected you to state pros vs. cons on your solution. Some interviewers are really quite during the interview. You have to push the interview process on your own.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question is not the leetcode style question. The coding problems are more akin to real-world application scenarios. Remember the function names commonly used in the language (the ones they expect you to know).
After asking to reschedule the phone screen I must have broken their AI driven recruiting process. Meeting the recruiter they said it seems my phone screen went well. Strange because I didn’t do a phone screen yet. The recruiter said I had an interview scheduled the following week. I asked if they could re-send the calendar invite as I did not receive anything, and was forwarded the invite. That day came, nobody showed up on the call. I emailed the recruiter advising them of this, and never heard back. Unprofessional. Will never seriously consider working with Waymo or other Google companies in the future. They have a combination of superiority complex and entitlement over their employees. Pass!