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Rejected After a Rough, Disrespectful Technical Screen

WaymoSite Reliability Engineer · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

I got rejected. This interview was for an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) role. The question was roughly this: there's a number line from 0 to 50. Points keep landing on the line, and each point contaminates the region 0.5 to its left and 0.5 to its right of where it lands — i.e., an interval of length 1. Once part of the line is contaminated, it stays contaminated forever. Points can land anywhe…

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