liam.davisSep 11, 2026

Waymo data fluency round wrecked me

Hack2hire Community · 2026-09-11T00:00:00.220Z

Waymo data fluency round wrecked me Had my full Waymo loop last week and it did not go how I expected, wanted to share since online prep really did not prepare me for the last round. Phone screen was a chess board shortest path problem, had to pick between BFS and DFS then handle a blocked cell follow up. Went fine honestly, I like graph problems. Onsite had two coding rounds, both custom problems rather than standard LC. One was sorting a string by a given priority order, the other was a rectan...

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User-m778pSep 11, 2026

Data fluency really is impossible to prep for, feel your pain

liam.davisSep 11, 2026

Yeah I looked around beforehand and there was basically nothing useful online for it

User-o2vptSep 11, 2026

Did they give you any hints during the statistical experiment question or just let you flounder

liam.davisSep 11, 2026

Mostly let me flounder, asked a couple clarifying questions but that was about it

quinnSep 11, 2026

rectangle copy in O(1) space sounds brutal for an onsite round

User-n02kzSep 11, 2026

Graph stuff showing up in basically every round makes sense given the domain honestly

benhe2000Sep 11, 2026

sorry to hear it, data fluency seems to be everyone's downfall at waymo

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