I applied online. I interviewed at Zoox (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
reached out by recruiter. pretty basic he explained the process. Phone screen followed by onsite. Had phone screen and the interviewer was asking theory questions like diff between static and dynamic programming language and all before jumping into technical question. Thought that was a little weird, haven't seen focus on theory before.
The technical was a basic calculation of cost kind of question but I had no clue what interviewer wanted to see. I asked him do you want to see OOD or just hardcoded calculation. His response was "whatever" just make the input work?? Like what?
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.