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!
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Expérience positive
Entretien facile
Candidature
J'ai passé un entretien chez Waymo (Mountain View, CA)
Entretien
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
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Waymo
Entretien
Waymo recruiter reached out to me via Email. Asked me about past projects and what I am interested to work on. After that she shared a few roles over the email. Then there was coding round. It was a 2D matrix coding problem which asked to print the weights for each cell. It required using recursion, etc. It was a hard problem but the interviewer gave a me a few hints which helped me solve.
Then I was invited to the virtual onsite rounds: 1 coding, 2 behavioral, 1 machine learning, 1 system design.
Everything went pretty smooth (coding round was a BFS question). One of the interview was setup incorrectly for me. That interviewer had no clue what he was supposed to ask. He started asking completely random technical questions. It was very weird conversation which did not go anywhere for like 30 mins. It screwed my interview. I told this to recruiter and they said they'll rearrange the interview for me, It was a bad experience. A few days later, I get the rejection email. I felt terrible because all rounds were pretty smooth and I also loved the team.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
2D Matrix and recursively print some weights.
BFS question to check if there exists a path in 2D matrix. But the question was smartly modified which required some critical thinking.
