Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

June 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Full day of technical questions and problems.

Similar to interviews at other medium-sized software companies.

Some general programming problems, as well as problems focused on your expertise.

Expect to write code on your laptop.

Questions

Cannot disclose. They make you sign an NDA before you perform the interview.

Plus, it would undermine the interview process to disclose the specific questions.

Some general programming problems as well as problems focused on your expertise.

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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

33%

Pass 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

Positive63%

Neutral16%

Negative21%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Uber's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

Uber Work Experiences

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

December 14, 2015

Pros: - Really fascinating technical challenges. - The company of incredibly smart and driven people. - A very open culture that encourages independence.

Cons: The lunch options at the office are pretty underwhelming.

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

December 14, 2015

Pros: - Really fascinating technical challenges. - The company of incredibly smart and driven people. - A very open culture that encourages independence.

Cons: The lunch options at the office are pretty underwhelming.

Having a good time so far!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 13, 2015

Pros: 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.

Having a good time so far!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 13, 2015

Pros: 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.

Interesting Work, Tricky Tech

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

October 29, 2020

Pros: Challenging, interesting work. Impactful product.

Cons: The tech stack can be difficult to navigate.

Interesting Work, Tricky Tech

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

October 29, 2020

Pros: Challenging, interesting work. Impactful product.

Cons: The tech stack can be difficult to navigate.

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

December 14, 2015

Pros: - Really fascinating technical challenges. - The company of incredibly smart and driven people. - A very open culture that encourages independence.

Cons: The lunch options at the office are pretty underwhelming.

5.0
Great place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
December 14, 2015
Pros: - Really fascinating technical challenges. - The company of incredibly smart and driven people. - A very open culture that encourages independence.
Cons: The lunch options at the office are pretty underwhelming.

Having a good time so far!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 13, 2015

Pros: 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.

5.0
Having a good time so far!
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 13, 2015
Pros: 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.

Interesting Work, Tricky Tech

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

October 29, 2020

Pros: Challenging, interesting work. Impactful product.

Cons: The tech stack can be difficult to navigate.

4.0
Interesting Work, Tricky Tech
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
October 29, 2020
Pros: Challenging, interesting work. Impactful product.
Cons: The tech stack can be difficult to navigate.

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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