I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Uber's interview process was the most chaotic of the lot. First of all, I got setup with a completely wrong team for my interview. The interview went well. Some of the interviewers were clearly untrained and didn't really know what they were doing.
I did well on the interview and got an offer but it was for another team that I had never met. The new team was working in an area more aligned with my area of interest. I had a couple more offers from big names and despite this Uber made me the worst/lowest offer. I have heard they lowball a LOT these days. No wonder they are unable to retain top talent.
The recruiter I was in touch with, unfortunately, was a disaster. He was constantly condescending and always behaved as if he was doing me a favor. Gave me a meagre $"x" raise on "Stock" (which is paper money anyway) and did not even budge on the base salary which was waayyy below all my other offers. He was the most horrible recruiter I have ever come across in my entire career and trust me I have met plenty.
I rejected the offer because I felt that Uber is full of such arrogant people these days, their culture is on the decline and they are not able to retain top talent. If you will pay peanuts...you know what you'll get.
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The interview process started with a recruiter screen where they covered my background and the role's expectations. Next, I had a phone screen focused on technical skills where I faced a DSA question on frequent elements in an array. I had practiced similar problems on prachub.com beforehand, which helped me tackle it effectively. The technical rounds consisted of coding and system design questions, including rate limiting. Finally, I had a behavioral interview where they assessed cultural fit. Overall, the experience was average, but I received and accepted an offer.
I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Recruiter screen then there was a hiring manager round which felt more like a mix of product sense + execution - mostly a mix of OOP algorithms in Python or Java and some high-level system design. The onsite was 5 back to back rounds covering data structures, database management (heavy on SQL and data lifecycles), deep sys design, and behavioral. The sys design round was the real test where I had to walk through building a scalable real-time gaming leaderboard, discussing tradeoffs ofcourse in architecture, APIs, and data flow. The coding rounds was around things like linked lists and tree traversals, while the behavioral part focused heavily on ownership of my code and handling feedback. When you prep, make sure you can go a level deeper on database management and object oriented patterns instead of just grinding LC I’d say. I did grind LC though but ensure you understand the depth behind everything you solve. I also did a few mocks with uber swe on prepfully specifically for the sys design and database rounds and that honestly helped me catch some blind spots in my architecture knowledge and practice explaining my tradeoffs clearly. I’d say get a mock or two from anywhere if you can - helped me a lot!
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