Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zoox with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 42.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 58 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zoox overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zoox as a Software Engineer according to 58 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 16%
Presentation: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zoox (Palo Alto, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
I applied online and the recruiter called me for a phone screen a few days later.
I then had coding challenge which can be completed at my own time. There was only two question and 90min to do it. The first question was super simple and I finished it within 10 min. The second question was a little tricky but not difficult.
After that, I was scheduled for an 1-hr C++ phone screen. The first half was C++ trivia (i.e. what virtual does?) and the second half was a design question.
I was then invited on-site. The recruiter asked for my expected salary range before he was willing to schedule the interview.
The on-site interview was long. There was another C++ interview; an algorithm interview which the interviewer told me not to code and just talk about the how I would solve problems; and a math and physics based interview like finding the area of a shape. There were a couple interviews which I just got to ask questions and chat with the manager/director/VP. At the end I got to meet with the CTO and have a quick tour of the garage.
Recruiter call to go over resume and position, tech screen (coding challenge), onsite with four rounds (coding challenge, system design, math and problem solving (MAPS), and one with team manager), leadership call.
interviewed at zoox for software engineer. had their famous brain teaser, a c++ round, 1 domain problem solving and 1 hiring manager. the hiring manager apparently has no interest and was unprofessional. The feedback from him is an unfinished sentence, according to my recruiter. Others are ok.
It was a live coding screening. It lasted an hour. It was a planning problem involving a lane change maneuver given other vehicles on road. There wasn’t much dialogue, just coding.