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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

HR screen, then a 1.5-hour coding challenge. The HR screen just wants to see if you're interested. You should research the company, not just know that they're a car company. They provide a full autonomous solution or something.

Questions

  1. Basic Calculator (+-*/). Fairly easy, finished in 15 minutes.

  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 minutes.

I was contacted a day later via email saying there isn't a position open. What the frig. Why would you make me do a coding challenge, then tell me there's no position?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Zoox Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Zoox's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive40%
Neutral0%
Negative60%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Zoox's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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