I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Zoox (Foster City, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
The recruiter reached out.
Phone Screen.
4-round Onsite
Ask for references from a previous employer.
HM chat.
Director chat.
Basically after each round the recruiter will schedule another call with you and start with "How do you feel about the last interview?" Which is definitely exhausting. The whole process took more than 2 months. And it took 1 month for me to get the offer after I took the onsite interview. There are definitely some processes that need to be optimized.
Besides, once the recruiter knows you're interviewing with another company, they will keep asking how you compare them and keep mentioning why Zoox is better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone screen: C++ object-oriented design question.
Onsite: coding and math&physics question.
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.
