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      Software Engineer Interview

      28 Oct 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2014

      Interview

      Contacted the recruiter and soon got a phone call from the company. After 3 phone screens in the less than 10 days, I was scheduled for an onsite. They agreed to reimburse for the costs but since the interview they have been mute. The onsite interview was supposed to be with 5 people, but it was cut short to only 4. The excuse was that the final interviewer had something emergent came up. In hindsight it seems they already decided not to hire, even though I thought I did relatively well. Most of the interviewer seems very professional, except one, whose body language and facial expression was saying that I was wasting her time. The recruiter was silent after the interview until I pinged her for an update. She told me that I was not a fit because the team was looking for a very specific candidate. In hindsight, the statement from the recruiter and from some other reviewers cannot be more true: the company is looking for VERY SPECIFIC skill set and is not looking for anything remotely like a generalist. The position I applied for was in mapping and logistics and they seem to expect me to know all the algorithms in computational geometry. My friends who were hired by a different team in the company was hired because he knew exactly what the team was looking for. It looks like people were hired to solve problems that already have and not the ones that will come up in the future. In other words, the company's hiring demeanor is very short sighted.
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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.
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      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.

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      Question 1

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