Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 15, 2015

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Resume review, then one technical interview from a current employee. He first introduced himself, what he does at Uber, and then my experience, and then we went on to the technical coding question.

Questions

Implementing the substring method.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 361 interview experiences for the Uber Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

19%

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

Positive48%

Neutral24%

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.

GraphsArrays

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.

ArraysGraphsDynamic Programming

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.

GraphsStringsArrays