I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zoox (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
HR screen, then 1.5 hour coding challenge. HR screen just wants to see if you're interested. You should research about the company, not just know that they're a car company. They provide full autonomous solution or something.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Basic Calculator +-/*. Fairly easy, finished in 15 mins.
2. Horse sound question. Given a string, (which is a horse sound), determine the minimum number of horses possible. "neigh" is the horse sound. "nneigheigh" should return 2. "neighneigh" returns 1.
Was tricky but managed to solve it in 20 mins.
I was contacted a day later via email saying there isn't a position open. What the frig. Why you make me do a coding challenge THEN tell me there's no position???
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.
