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      Software Engineer Interview

      23 Jun 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Palo Alto, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (Palo Alto, CA) in Jun 2018

      Interview

      Done this process twice now. Probably won't ever again. I don't know if I'd take an offer here even if I had gotten one. It'd have to be really high comp since the palo alto office is crap. Second time: Two phone screens. Onsite interview with about 5 technical interviews. What was weird is that I was interviewing almost directly with the team that I'd be working with. Didn't know that until the end. I didn't even really know the exact position until I met the hiring manager at the end (which I found out because he told me - there was no information up front!). Almost all white boarding questions - not complaining there as that's normal. I don't think I interacted with a single American in the whole process - which was weird. And I do mean American. There was a white guy in my "group lunch" but he wasn't from the US. Speaks to the type of people who get hired at Uber, I guess. One weird note here too: My main lunch interviewer was also a white boarding interviewer later on in the day but I was never let on to that. That's /weird/. Questions themselves were all leetcode medium to hard except for one which was closer to an easy (but it was just a question that was being thrown in for some reason). In fact, I wouldn't expect candidates to have even gotten the optimal answer to the first one I had been asked unless they had buffed up on a specific type of data structure recently (LRU cache). The questions themselves weren't important. I honestly don't know why I didn't get an offer because some of the people seemed to really like me and from my memory I did solve all of the questions with optimal answers. That first question I got - I gave the optimal solution verbally immediately. Which he was a bit surprised at but then immediately asked me to not solve it that way. I was like, "Uh, ok... So you want me to do a non-optimal solution?" He probably thought I had seen the problem before but I hadn't. Overall, I was not emailed anything until I emailed them about it a week later... and since Uber provides absolutely no feedback after the interview - I will be declining any further interviews with them in the future. I would really recommend you don't bother with this place. I only interviewed here just for practice before I interviewed at big N but now it's just pointless. They'll take up the whole day and you could just spend that time more efficiently on leetcode. There are other companies I can go to for similar interview processes and they'll actually provide feedback when you don't get an offer. There was an underlying feeling of racism and/or xenophobia that I felt with some people. Not going to even get into that too deeply other than saying that it was strongly felt in at least one of my interviews. If you've lived in the bay area, you know the feeling I'm talking about. Racial tension is high here. It's not new but just annoying that Uber didn't do significant bias training for that here.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Map Reduce large log files to get X amount of random lines, managing a Pool of IPs, rotated array search.
      2 Answers
      2

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      Software Engineer Interview

      30 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Uber

      Interview

      The interview process started with a recruiter screen where they covered my background and the role's expectations. Next, I had a phone screen focused on technical skills where I faced a DSA question on frequent elements in an array. I had practiced similar problems on prachub.com beforehand, which helped me tackle it effectively. The technical rounds consisted of coding and system design questions, including rate limiting. Finally, I had a behavioral interview where they assessed cultural fit. Overall, the experience was average, but I received and accepted an offer.
      2

      Software Engineer Interview

      3 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2026

      Interview

      Recruiter screen then there was a hiring manager round which felt more like a mix of product sense + execution - mostly a mix of OOP algorithms in Python or Java and some high-level system design. The onsite was 5 back to back rounds covering data structures, database management (heavy on SQL and data lifecycles), deep sys design, and behavioral. The sys design round was the real test where I had to walk through building a scalable real-time gaming leaderboard, discussing tradeoffs ofcourse in architecture, APIs, and data flow. The coding rounds was around things like linked lists and tree traversals, while the behavioral part focused heavily on ownership of my code and handling feedback. When you prep, make sure you can go a level deeper on database management and object oriented patterns instead of just grinding LC I’d say. I did grind LC though but ensure you understand the depth behind everything you solve. I also did a few mocks with uber swe on prepfully specifically for the sys design and database rounds and that honestly helped me catch some blind spots in my architecture knowledge and practice explaining my tradeoffs clearly. I’d say get a mock or two from anywhere if you can - helped me a lot!
      3

      Software Engineer Interview

      27 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Uber (Sydney)

      Interview

      The Uber Software Engineer interview typically takes 4–6 weeks and begins with a recruiter screen focused on your experience, motivation, and role fit, followed by an online coding assessment or live coding screen with one or two algorithm problems that test correctness, efficiency, and communication. If you pass, you’ll have a technical phone interview solving a medium-to-hard coding problem with complexity discussion, and then a virtual onsite loop of about four to five one-hour rounds: a data-structures/algorithms coding interview, a machine-coding or low-level design round where you build a small system with clean, runnable code, a system design interview focused on large-scale distributed systems (often Uber-style problems like ride dispatch or surge pricing), and a behavioral interview assessing ownership, teamwork, and decision-making. Senior roles may include a project deep dive, and after all rounds a hiring committee reviews feedback before team matching and a final offer, with Uber evaluating problem solving, engineering fundamentals, system thinking, communication, and real-world impact throughout the process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about a time you took ownership of a problem and solved it end-to-end.
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