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
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Uber (Sydney) in May 2019
Interview
Phone interview. It last only 5 minutes. During the conversation I pronounced Uber as juber, not u:ber. The recruiter said we're oober, not juber, then hanged up on me. This is the rudest interviewer I have ever encountered.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
you background, you part in the company/team, what is your career plan.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Uber (Amsterdam) in Jan 2017
Interview
I was reached out by a recruiter for a position in Amsterdam. Shortly after a had a phone interview scheduled. That was my first phone coding interview and it went terribly unpleasant. First off, the interviewer went almost completely silent, every time I asked details about the task the answer was “do as you like”. He was constantly typing something and I didn’t feel he was anyhow engaged in the conversation. After I finished coding he said “ok, fine” and quickly moved to another stage.
I didn’t feel welcomed, I didn’t feel he actually cared about my solution; It looked like he made some opinion on me in the first 5 minutes of the call and then my solution didn’t matter at all to him, so he went straight to the report even before I started coding.
I’ve had many other interviews in Credit Suisse, Google and Facebook, but this one is the worst.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program that takes a configuration file as an input and build dependencies.