Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
The process had two steps: a live coding phone screen and an onsite interview.
I was initially concerned about the live coding process due to past bad experiences with other companies. However, the interview exceeded my expectations. It was clear that the interviewer focused on assessing my abilities rather than nitpicking on silly syntax.
The onsite interview was a bit unique and included two problem-solving sessions, one live coding session, and one design section. I really enjoyed the problem-solving sessions; we worked out a few very interesting problems together with the interviewers.
For the design section, I was asked to design a system from scratch and discuss scaling, product, and performance concerns.
Questions
Design from scratch and talk about scaling, product, and performance concerns.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 121 interview experiences for the Uber Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Uber's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Uber's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Uber Work Experiences
- 5.0Great place to learn and be challengedSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 10, 2018Pros: - Amazing opportunities to work on difficult problems. - World-class co-workers to learn from. - Great for personal and professional growth. - Fantastic benefits and perks.Cons: Doesn’t always feel like a meritocracy. Some teams have limited scope and opportunities. Strong sense of entitlement from some employees.
- 5.0Having a good time so far!Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 13, 2015Pros: 1. You get to solve interesting and meaningful problems. 2. You work with very smart and friendly co-workers. 3. You have high impact, and your code gets deployed in production frequently. 4. You are flexible on design decisions while you take ownership of projects.Cons: 1. Code review and code style are not strongly enforced, which sometimes can cause trouble or make it difficult to understand legacy code. 2. Test in production culture: There is no QA at Uber, so everyone is QA. You are responsible for your own bugs, but many times people are not careful enough and cause outages in production. 3. Technical debt. 4. Sometimes people get fired simply because they aren't in a good relationship with their direct manager.
- 5.0Great place to work at!Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 28, 2017Pros: Fast-paced. Incredible peers. Decent food. Disrupting company.Cons: 25,000 person "startup"! It's grown too big, too fast.
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