1p3a Experience · Sep 2025

Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Senior Software Engineer Phone Interview

SWE Phone Screen Senior
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Interview Experience

They asked very detailed questions about my resume, including some behavioral questions, such as how I recovered from a failed project, a project I'm particularly proud of, and how I handled conflicts

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They asked very detailed questions about my resume, including some behavioral questions, such as how I recovered from a failed project, a project I'm particularly proud of, and how I handled conflicts. I had 20 minutes left to do a problem: Given a binary tree, if a node has only one child, delete its child and collapse it into the current node, then add its value to its parent node. For example: 1 / 2 / 3 becomes root node 6 6 Postorder solved.

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a waymo interview for a swe role (senior level) during the phone screen round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Binary Tree, Tree, Binary Tree .