I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zoox in Oct 2022
Interview
The recruiter was very responsive and nice. My interviewer was nice but not very engaging. He helped when needed and provided some tips. The interview was an hour long with 30 minutes being Python trivia questions (polymorphism, memory management and garbage collection, etc) and the remaining time being a coding problem. The coding problem was not LC style but was more focused on OOP principles. The trivia questions portion was only supposed to be 15 minutes long, so I think the interviewer should've realized and moved onto the programming problem so that I would've not been rushed to come up with a solution. Ultimately, I did not advance after this. The programming problem wasn't hard but definitely was a good assessment of OOP coding. I thought it was a good interview experience and made me practice my coding (beyond LC memorization).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Same as the other two reviews before mine. Design an airline ticketing system to calculate ticket prices
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.
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