1) Meeting with HR
2) Meeting with Head of Research
3) One-to-one Technical Interview
4) Interview day - two coding interviews and two research interviews.
The person from HR coordinating the process took *ages* between each stage and it took weeks to get from end-to-end.
Candidatei-me por indicação de um funcionário. Fui entrevistado pela Waymo (San Francisco, CA) em mai. de 2026
Entrevista
First a leetcode question about approximate uniform distribution with bernoulli , then four rounds of onsite including: ml system design, ml coding, ml fundamentals and bahaviour. Mostly about how to design robust vision system.
Did a coding interview 45 minutes, discussed the research. Was a dynamic programming gotcha questions. Solved it, but they had me reimplement the entire thing because it didn't match their ideal solution.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Solved the problem in that was mathematically equivalent, had me rewrite it the recursion to use a list of lists. Refused to allow me to use an lrucache or reimplement it on my own for a simpler solution.
Candidatei-me de outra forma. O processo levou 4 meses. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Waymo (Oxford, Inglaterra).
Entrevista
The process included an intro call, plus 7 other interviews including a presentation, several coding and ML interviews. Overall process took more than 4 months, with slow replies from HR.
