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Software Development Engineer (SDE1) Interview Experience - India

January 12, 2024

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Process

Online assessment round with 6 questions and 90 minutes to answer all 6 questions.

Questions

Leetcode medium: 3 Leetcode hard: 2 Leetcode easy: 1

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Uber Software Development Engineer (SDE1) role in India.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Uber's interview process for their Software Development Engineer (SDE1) roles in India is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Uber's Software Development Engineer (SDE1) interview process in India.

Uber Work Experiences

Great Pay, Tough Work-life

Software Development Engineer (SDE1) • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Competitive peers, and earning a new tech stack.

Cons: Bad WLB, promo based projects

Great Pay, Tough Work-life

Software Development Engineer (SDE1) • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Competitive peers, and earning a new tech stack.

Cons: Bad WLB, promo based projects

Smartest people you will meet

Senior Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 22, 2014

Pros: As a full-time employee, the perks are great: competitive wage, monthly stipend, and lots of drinking. It is a very fun and party-oriented culture.

Cons: In the operations side, there is a Kool-Aid-like culture. Everyone thinks as a collective and rejects any outside thoughts without consideration. Fortunately, engineering is not like that, but engineers don't make all the business decisions.

Smartest people you will meet

Senior Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 22, 2014

Pros: As a full-time employee, the perks are great: competitive wage, monthly stipend, and lots of drinking. It is a very fun and party-oriented culture.

Cons: In the operations side, there is a Kool-Aid-like culture. Everyone thinks as a collective and rejects any outside thoughts without consideration. Fortunately, engineering is not like that, but engineers don't make all the business decisions.

Good working environment

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Lots to learn, great pay, awesome office.

Cons: It is still in a startup mode. If you are looking for MNC culture, this is not the place.

Good working environment

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Lots to learn, great pay, awesome office.

Cons: It is still in a startup mode. If you are looking for MNC culture, this is not the place.

Great Pay, Tough Work-life

Software Development Engineer (SDE1) • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Competitive peers, and earning a new tech stack.

Cons: Bad WLB, promo based projects

4.0
Great Pay, Tough Work-life
Software Development Engineer (SDE1) • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
July 22, 2024
Pros: Competitive peers, and earning a new tech stack.
Cons: Bad WLB, promo based projects

Smartest people you will meet

Senior Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 22, 2014

Pros: As a full-time employee, the perks are great: competitive wage, monthly stipend, and lots of drinking. It is a very fun and party-oriented culture.

Cons: In the operations side, there is a Kool-Aid-like culture. Everyone thinks as a collective and rejects any outside thoughts without consideration. Fortunately, engineering is not like that, but engineers don't make all the business decisions.

5.0
Smartest people you will meet
Senior Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 22, 2014
Pros: As a full-time employee, the perks are great: competitive wage, monthly stipend, and lots of drinking. It is a very fun and party-oriented culture.
Cons: In the operations side, there is a Kool-Aid-like culture. Everyone thinks as a collective and rejects any outside thoughts without consideration. Fortunately, engineering is not like that, but engineers don't make all the business decisions.

Good working environment

Software Engineer II • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Lots to learn, great pay, awesome office.

Cons: It is still in a startup mode. If you are looking for MNC culture, this is not the place.

4.0
Good working environment
Software Engineer II • Current Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
March 9, 2018
Pros: Lots to learn, great pay, awesome office.
Cons: It is still in a startup mode. If you are looking for MNC culture, this is not the place.

Uber Interview Questions

Bus Routes

Imagine you're planning a trip using a network of bus routes. Given a set of routes and start/end locations, find the fewest number of buses you must take to reach your destination.

Alien Dictionary

You are given a sorted list of words from an alien language and need to deduce the order of the letters in that language. Determine the alien alphabet order based on the given word sequence.

GraphsArraysTopological Sort

Number of Islands II

Imagine an empty grid that represents the sea. You are given a sequence of coordinates to add land (islands) to the grid one by one. Determine the number of islands after each addition.

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