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Rejected 30 Minutes After Pushing on the Process

WaymoFrontend Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · May 2026

I interviewed for a senior frontend engineer role, on the simulation team. Probably not much help to most people but in case someone needs it. Phone screen Part 1 — I don't remember the exact details, but it was related to n-ary tree recursion. Roughly, if a node's value contains a certain substring, you need to remove the entire subtree. Return the filtered tree. Part 2 was building a UI based o…

Shared by a candidate · reported May 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.