Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2017

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

For the phone interview, the interviewer didn't call me at all the first time, and the recruiter rescheduled my interview to one week later. The second time, an engineer called me, but apparently he was beside a very noisy conference room. I managed to finish coding in the noise.

Questions

Write an algorithm to check whether a Sudoku board is valid/complete.

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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.

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