Forget about the usual red tape, endless meetings, and boring reports that you will do in other companies. At Uber, everyone's focus is on getting stuff done and getting it done in the best way possible. At Uber, you will have:
The place is a rocket ship still taking off. You will either love keeping up with the speed or be vaporized in the process. I find work/life balance to be better than claimed by others, but with Uber, you will not have a 9-5 cookie-cutter job.
Keep going. For other brilliant companies, the "sky is the limit" cliche might be fitting, but I am sure that we will some day see UberSpace, so it will take a while before we know what Uber's limit is.
Great interview experience. The interviews gave me a great impression of the company and its culture. The questions were a mix of real-life work scenarios and LeetCode problems. They weren't disconnected from the daily job.
I applied through a recruiter. - Technical Screening - DSA/Algo - Low level design - High level design - Hiring Manager All the interviewers were helpful. Most of the questions asked were available on LeetCode. The whole process took around two mon
Coding Interview using the CodeSignal tool. The requirement was to make the code compile/run and pass some tests the interviewer wrote in the tool. The tool didn't handle pytest very well, so I ran the tests using print statements.
Great interview experience. The interviews gave me a great impression of the company and its culture. The questions were a mix of real-life work scenarios and LeetCode problems. They weren't disconnected from the daily job.
I applied through a recruiter. - Technical Screening - DSA/Algo - Low level design - High level design - Hiring Manager All the interviewers were helpful. Most of the questions asked were available on LeetCode. The whole process took around two mon
Coding Interview using the CodeSignal tool. The requirement was to make the code compile/run and pass some tests the interviewer wrote in the tool. The tool didn't handle pytest very well, so I ran the tests using print statements.