Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2016

Neutral ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Skipped phone round since I have competing offers and had worked at top tech companies.

5 onsite interviews:

2 coding interviews.
1 design interview.
1 project discussion.
1 lunch interview.

Every interview was 1 hour long, but the interviewers kept talking about my projects and their projects for the first 30-40 minutes, giving only 20 minutes for problem-solving.

Questions

Text Justification
Alien Dictionary
Bipartite Graph Check
Design Uber

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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

Brand Name, No Learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great brand name. Exposure to some great problems in the industry.

Cons: There is very little to learn. The company is full of new college grads who hardly know how to write maintainable code. The company has a very little sense of direction and believes in throwing money at every problem. The CEO believes that employees should at least put in 80 hours per week. No work-life balance.

Brand Name, No Learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great brand name. Exposure to some great problems in the industry.

Cons: There is very little to learn. The company is full of new college grads who hardly know how to write maintainable code. The company has a very little sense of direction and believes in throwing money at every problem. The CEO believes that employees should at least put in 80 hours per week. No work-life balance.

Great experience working at Uber

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 1, 2022

Pros: 1. Team culture is great; teammates are like friends. 2. Tech stack is great. 3. WLB is good.

Cons: The performance of the stack is poor.

Great experience working at Uber

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 1, 2022

Pros: 1. Team culture is great; teammates are like friends. 2. Tech stack is great. 3. WLB is good.

Cons: The performance of the stack is poor.

Cool Tech, Slow Pace

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

January 21, 2021

Pros: Fancy tech and decent benefits.

Cons: It's not fast-paced anymore. Too many blockers.

Cool Tech, Slow Pace

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

January 21, 2021

Pros: Fancy tech and decent benefits.

Cons: It's not fast-paced anymore. Too many blockers.

Brand Name, No Learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great brand name. Exposure to some great problems in the industry.

Cons: There is very little to learn. The company is full of new college grads who hardly know how to write maintainable code. The company has a very little sense of direction and believes in throwing money at every problem. The CEO believes that employees should at least put in 80 hours per week. No work-life balance.

1.0
Brand Name, No Learning
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
March 3, 2017
Pros: Great brand name. Exposure to some great problems in the industry.
Cons: There is very little to learn. The company is full of new college grads who hardly know how to write maintainable code. The company has a very little sense of direction and believes in throwing money at every problem. The CEO believes that employees should at least put in 80 hours per week. No work-life balance.

Great experience working at Uber

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 1, 2022

Pros: 1. Team culture is great; teammates are like friends. 2. Tech stack is great. 3. WLB is good.

Cons: The performance of the stack is poor.

5.0
Great experience working at Uber
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
February 1, 2022
Pros: 1. Team culture is great; teammates are like friends. 2. Tech stack is great. 3. WLB is good.
Cons: The performance of the stack is poor.

Cool Tech, Slow Pace

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

January 21, 2021

Pros: Fancy tech and decent benefits.

Cons: It's not fast-paced anymore. Too many blockers.

3.0
Cool Tech, Slow Pace
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
January 21, 2021
Pros: Fancy tech and decent benefits.
Cons: It's not fast-paced anymore. Too many blockers.

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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