I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in May 2019
Interview
I had applied through a referral for the software engineer role at Uber ATG, Pittsburgh. The turn around was pretty quick. A technical phone screen was scheduled for the following week. On the day of the call, the interview, I waited for the call for 20 min after the scheduled time before e-mailing the HR. The interviewer had forgotten about the call!! Anyway, after that the interview went smoothly. Later I was contacted to say that they had moved me to the next technical screen. On the day of the interview, to my surprise, I received a call from the HR just to say that the new grad positions have been filled up and there won't be any interview. I found this to be very unprofessional. They shouldn't have moved me to the next round if this was the case or should've at least let me know the nature of the call before the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a 2D vector, all vectors were of size two. Eg: {{1,3},{2,3},{1,4}}. The vectors represent the entry and exit time of a pedestrian crossing a road. Pedestrian 1 entered at time 1 and exited at time 3 and so on.. Find the interval during which maximum number of pedestrians were crossing the road.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Uber in Apr 2019
Interview
Was contacted by recruiter via linked in. 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
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (Louisville, CO) in Jun 2019
Interview
I was contacted by the recruiter via phone to access my interests in Uber and why I wanted to leave my current job. I was given the choice to either do a phone screening technical interview or go on-site for an hour since I was a local to the area, in which I chose to go onsite. After passing the preliminary screening, I was invited for the full on-site interview. Since I was interviewing for the Map Store team, I was told beforehand to focus more on graphs, trees, arrays, and linked lists. The questions were fairly hard/tricky to come up with a solution in the time frame that you were given and there was the expectation that you would write your code in CodePair after whiteboarding your solution, which I was not able to do for two of the interviews. However, the interviewers were very nice and helped me through a lot of the parts of the problem where I got stuck, so I had a somewhat complete whiteboarded solution for all the interviews. I struggled a lot through the system design interview due to my lack of experience with distributed systems, but the interviewer took that into account. While I did not pass the interview, the recruiter and interviewers that I have met are some of the nicest people in tech that I have had the pleasure of talking to and seemed extremely passionate about their work, and my experience interviewing for the Colorado office has been nothing but positive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Preliminary Screen:
- String/Tree question - Get the "boundary" of a string
Onsite:
3 DS/Algo Questions, 1 System Design Question, 1 "Bar-Raiser" Behavioral Interview
- Minesweeper Graph problem, Spiral Matrix (Leetcode Medium), Hackerrank array/heap question that was fairly complicated in scope