Waymo Software Engineer interview questions

This was for a web based role. Started with an introductory call with a recruiter with basic behavioral and “why Waymo” style questions. Next round was a CoderPad interview which consisted of reviewing a design doc by adding details/leaving comments and working on a small JavaScript codebase to build out a few new features. I didn’t personally have a phone interview after this. Final round was an on-site where I met with four would-be direct teammates. I was given the option to work on the interview questions beforehand, so I did that. During the interviews, we discussed my solutions, and made a few changes/extensions to what I had written based on follow up questions. No LC style questions, all were more web oriented. All interviewers were kind and I thought the conversations were enjoyable. Overall, I thought the interview process itself was great, but I was ghosted by my recruiter after the on-site. It’s a simple courtesy to let a candidate know one way or another, especially after they’ve spent hours going through the interview process, and it was a huge let down to see Waymo represented as such. I followed up with my recruiter, including letting them know I had competing offers, but still never got a response. Very disappointing.

Customary call with recruiter followed by two technical rounds. Apparently did well enough to be moved to the full on-site interview, but after a week of waiting for the final date confirmation I was told that they had people with more experience in the pipeline already. Altogether disappointing and a little unprofessional, it feels like they wanted to have a plan B in case their preferred candidate/s declined.