I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Uber (Santa Monica, CA) in May 2019
Interview
The process consisted of a phone interview, analytical assessment, video interview, and in-office interview over the course of two months. The recruiters and hiring managers were friendly and very transparent about wanting a candidate with great stakeholder and project management skills. They ask a lot of questions about Uber's operating model (i.e. using technology to connect riders and drivers/place deliveries). Know their terminology. Don't be surprised if you don't hear back from them for up to two weeks in between steps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Uber?
Do you have experience with SQL or analyzing large data sets?
Which internal teams would you work with when bringing a new product to market?
Explain your stakeholder management process?
How do you resolve disagreements with stakeholders and team members?
Tell us about a time you used data to solve a problem?
Begin with phone screen and then on to a 2 hour timed analytics test. Test is 32 quantitative and qualitative questions, both with and without Excel data used. Following steps were video interviews and in person for final stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
150 people applied for driver positions. Of them, 130 have valid drivers licenses. 66% of the total pool passed the city knowledge test. 60% of the total pool passed the background check. What is the minimum number of eligible drivers from the total pool?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2019
Interview
The interview process was rigorous, including a phone screen with a recruiter, an analytics test, a video interview with light case study with a senior manager and a 2-hour onsite interview. The onsite included two 2-on-1 interviews, for which I did an overview of my hard skills and a case interview, and one 1-on-1 interview, which was more of an overview of my soft skills.
Uber gave me a salary and equity number during the first-round interview, stating that there would not be a ton of room for negotiation as they are trying to shore up their pay equity schemes. I received another offer while I waited out a decision at Uber, which I communicated to my recruiter. She assured me that I would receive a decision from Uber by a certain date. That date passed, and I sent two emails to the recruiter with no response. It was incredibly frustrating to get radio silence from her with a deadline on the table. I was only able to get a response because I reached out to the person who referred me, who reached out to her. She finally got back to me and said that while the team loved me and I got great feedback on my interviews, they wanted to bring me in at $20k less than originally discussed, with less than half the equity. I was shocked. Honestly a no would have been better than this. I told my recruiter that I was surprised because I got great feedback on my interviews. She said she agreed; she looked over my interview notes and could only see that I struggled to answer a question about incentive pricing as the reason why the team would undercut me. I have interviewed with dozens of tech companies and have never left an interview process feeling so undervalued and disrespected as I did with Uber.
Overall, this was a terrible candidate experience for me and a waste of my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly behavioral and some case questions regarding how you would handle certain situations in the role.