I was invited through a referral.

First, there was a 15-minute recruiter screen. The recruiter was nice and respectful, and very forward with the recruiting process and job conditions (salary, benefits).

The online assessment was a 3-hour CodeSignal with 4 LeetCode-Medium tasks, relatively popular with an Uber-specific twist.

The interview day consisted of 3 rounds, starting with a greeting and informal chat by a different recruiter:

• A 1-hour interview with a hiring manager, which was mostly a conversation with a focus on the candidate.
• A 45-60 minute coding assignment with 2 interviewers, working on a problem to "break text messages into chunks." I ran out of time with a rough solution that we couldn't finish, but the interviewers indicated I was close and also mentioned there are several ways to implement this general problem.
• A 45-60 minute interview with another set of 2 interviewers on a DS&A problem, "Minesweeper score generator," which was similar to the "Number of islands" problem. The interviewers explained the problem very clearly, in case the candidate was not familiar with Minesweeper, and were very thorough with all questions I brought up.

It ended with a sendoff by a recruiter who, 2 hours later, gave me the news and the offer.

Overall, the process left me very satisfied, and the recruiting team supported me with my preferences for the date and time of interviews.

OA: Focus on greedy algorithms.

Interviews:

• Text message chunking
• Minesweeper score