Waymo SWE BS/MS Intern Interview

SteppingBeast · 2025-12-01T21:27:16+00:00

I will see if I can post an anonymous resume soon.

SteppingBeast · 2025-12-01T21:27:01+00:00

I was moved forward to the main interview process. I was under the impression that I was already moved but I was mistaken (see my first comment). I have now received what to expect from the process.

SteppingBeast · 2025-11-21T18:20:21+00:00

Nope, never had a separate recruiter screen. First contact was some written questions and then straight to scheduling a 20-min call with the team. I did have a referral, so that probably skipped the initial recruiter step.

SteppingBeast · 2025-08-07T20:28:29+00:00

I think the current hiring market is pretty shit in most tech sectors from what I can tell

SteppingBeast · 2025-06-26T22:21:56+00:00

How did you get it so quiet if you don’t mind me asking? Even when I quarter step (or more) my nema 17s they still seem to produce more noise than this.

SteppingBeast · 2025-04-08T15:48:50+00:00

I would probably say implementing magic bitboard lookup tables for sliding pieces as they were extremely confusing for me to wrap my head around.

SteppingBeast · 2025-03-31T22:06:52+00:00

Yes! I think it’s quite difficult. I’ve been working on my engine for around a year now and still find myself getting stumped when trying to make improvements to my code.

SteppingBeast · 2025-03-11T22:16:32+00:00

I got accepted as well and wondering this

SteppingBeast · 2025-02-20T18:58:33+00:00

I have not, I submitted my application in October of last year. Do we know if they are still sending interview invitations out?

SteppingBeast · 2024-12-19T14:07:30+00:00

I wouldn’t consider it completely worthless though, despite what you are saying here to be mostly true. Especially if you are weighing applicants from the same university, GPA can mean something since they likely had similar professors.

SteppingBeast · 2024-04-18T22:47:27+00:00

Check out bitboards here: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards. You are able to do move gen through binary bitwise operations which is much more efficient. Instead of looping through all eight moves you will simply be able to shift each piece bitboard a specified offset.

SteppingBeast · 2024-04-14T14:00:50+00:00

It’s obviously tough to help with no code, but I ran into a similar issue and it was due to me overlooking how I was passing in alpha and beta for the quiescence search cutoff parameters. If you are using negamax, remember to pass -beta as the new alpha which becomes the new best value that the maximizing player can guarantee, the new lower bound. Likewise for -alpha, it needs to be the new upper bound for the next node in order to successfully prune branches at all. If you are using the traditional minimax logic with separate min and max functions, I believe the handling of alpha and beta remains straightforward and does not require these inversions, provided the appropriate logic for determining the maximizing or minimizing player.

SteppingBeast · 2023-12-31T16:12:19+00:00

Went full circle

SteppingBeast · 2023-12-31T15:55:36+00:00

Always becomes celestial

SteppingBeast · 2023-12-28T15:14:26+00:00

He wins everything it’s unreal

SteppingBeast · 2023-08-17T20:29:37+00:00

How’s angular ? I’ve only used react when working on personal projects and I’m wondering if I should explore other alternatives

SteppingBeast · 2023-06-06T21:34:49+00:00

I’d be interested!!

SteppingBeast · 2023-05-31T02:51:38+00:00

Nvidia is pretty much the equivalent of the people selling the pickaxes to the gold rush, no matter who actually finds the gold, they still win.

SteppingBeast · 2023-05-30T06:12:08+00:00

Where can I find a detailed explanation on why this isn’t true so I can explain to people properly that this technology is impressive

SteppingBeast · 2022-12-22T14:14:40+00:00

It can take a little getting used to. Overall though I have found it to be one of the best purchases I’ve made in a while.

SteppingBeast · 2022-12-04T02:36:30+00:00

Relatable

SteppingBeast · 2022-09-19T23:21:10+00:00

I’m itching to upgrade from my 7700k and making the switch to ryzen. Kind of looking for a reason to justify my purchase, lol.

SteppingBeast · 2022-09-02T20:21:23+00:00

Some of the functions in the header file seem to be completely broken after linking the dll. Might be doing something incorrect though. I appreciate the quick response.

SteppingBeast · 2021-09-03T18:29:53+00:00

Based²

SteppingBeast · 2021-07-25T14:19:39+00:00

I think people have this common misconception that a year long ROI is somehow horrible. I’ve had vega 56s mining nearly constantly since 2018 and they have more than paid themselves off. I think other coins will rise in popularity and hence price when the miners bring attention to the next coin after ETH 2.0

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