Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

April 1, 2019

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Was contacted by recruiter via LinkedIn. Has an initial behavioral screen, followed by a phone interview. The phone interview was an hour long with theory questions followed by a live coding session.

Questions

3 sum problem.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 363 interview experiences for the Uber Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

Uber's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive47%

Neutral25%

Negative28%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Uber's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Uber Interview Questions

Bus Routes

Hard

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.

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Number of Islands II

Hard

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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Alien Dictionary

Hard

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.

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