24 curated coding interview questions directly asked in Waymo technical rounds, sorted by frequency with recency and difficulty diagnostics.
| ID | Problem | Difficulty | Topic | Pattern | Acceptance | Frequency | Recency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528 | Random Pick with Weight | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 49.1% | 100.0% | 30d |
| 200 | Number of Islands | Medium | Graphs | BFS / DFS / Topological Sort | 64.4% | 100.0% | 30d |
| 149 | Max Points on a Line | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 30.7% | 100.0% | all |
| 871 | Minimum Number of Refueling Stops | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 41.4% | 87.5% | 6m |
| 1944 | Number of Visible People in a Queue | Hard | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 73.1% | 87.5% | 6m |
| 359 | Logger Rate Limiter | Easy | Design | Data Structure Design | 76.8% | 87.5% | 6m |
| 253 | Meeting Rooms II | Medium | Greedy | Greedy | 52.7% | 75.0% | all |
| 1296 | Divide Array in Sets of K Consecutive Numbers | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 59.3% | 62.5% | all |
| 348 | Design Tic-Tac-Toe | Medium | Design | Data Structure Design | 58.7% | 62.5% | all |
| 317 | Shortest Distance from All Buildings | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 44.9% | 62.5% | all |
| 1197 | Minimum Knight Moves | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 42.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 162 | Find Peak Element | Medium | Binary Search | Binary Search | 47.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 68 | Text Justification | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 51.2% | 62.5% | all |
| 84 | Largest Rectangle in Histogram | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 49.9% | 62.5% | all |
| 631 | Design Excel Sum Formula | Hard | Arrays; Design | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Data Structure Design | 39.7% | 62.5% | all |
| 939 | Minimum Area Rectangle | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 55.4% | 62.5% | all |
| 1631 | Path With Minimum Effort | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 63.2% | 62.5% | all |
| 10 | Regular Expression Matching | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 31.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 269 | Alien Dictionary | Hard | Graphs | BFS / DFS / Topological Sort | 37.2% | 62.5% | all |
| 2008 | Maximum Earnings From Taxi | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 46.5% | 62.5% | all |
| 304 | Range Sum Query 2D - Immutable | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 58.3% | 62.5% | all |
| 489 | Robot Room Cleaner | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 78.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 305 | Number of Islands II | Hard | Graphs | BFS / DFS / Topological Sort | 40.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 853 | Car Fleet | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 55.1% | 62.5% | all |