I was referred to Uber by an acquaintance. After a standard phone screen, I was asked to complete a coding exercise that would take 6–8 hours. While I approve of coding exercises as an interviewing technique, a working day is a rather large time commitment so early in an interviewing process. I politely responded that I would like to see how my other interviews (which were much further along) conclude before completing the exercise.

I received a rather rude and terse response from the in-house recruiter: "Doesn't sound like we are the right fit for what you are looking for." I'm happy that I did not interview further.

Please find our standard web test below!

Code Test! Bam!

Uber clients are able to store favorite locations for easy pickup requests. Create a backend and a frontend for managing favorite locations.

This is a simple exercise, but organize, design, and test your code as if it were going into production.

When you’re done, host it somewhere and provide us with a URL and a tarball or Git repo with the code.

Backend Using the language (Python preferred), libraries, and data store of your choosing, create a JSON in/out RESTful API for managing favorite locations. Stay away from Django or Rails, but microframeworks like Flask (preferred), Sinatra, or Express are fine.

Attributes of a favorite location object include:

• id
• lat
• lng
• address (e.g., 800 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114)
• name (e.g., Work)

Frontend Using JavaScript, Backbone.js, and any other libraries of your choosing, create an interface to access the API. The user should be able to:

• Create a new location
• Read/view a location and a collection of all locations
• Update an existing location
• Delete a location

The UX is up to you, with a couple of constraints:

• Incorporate a map
• Geocode the address so the user is not required to enter lat/lng

Extras If you like, get creative and do whatever else you like on the backend and/or frontend to show off.