I applied in-person. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Two phone interviews, a case study, two full day on site interviews. One has to invest a lot of time for a case study and interviews without any meaningful feedback. Conversations with the engineering team and UI designers were interesting, intellectual, and pleasant.
- Home exercise followed by a group evaluation
- Design thinking: how to solve complex problems using design thinking?
- Engineering discussion: focus on understanding of development process, partnership, prioritisation etc.
- Data sciences: focus on analytical thinking, model development process etc.
- Multiple discussions on product thinking & problem solving
I applied online. I interviewed at Uber (Amsterdam) in Aug 2017
Interview
Applied online. Was contacted about a 6 weeks later by a recruiter and with whom I had an initial interview. So far so good. The next step was an video interview with one of the higher ups in San Fransisco. I started feeling uneasy about the prospect of working there as soon as the interview started - there just wasn't the slightest hint of a repport between Interviewer and me. The interviewer arrived more than 15 minutes late and was very blasé about it. Right from the start I had the impression that he already had made up his mind and that he just wanted to get the interview over with. He was constantly cutting me off, often in mind sentence. Started off by saying "there is no need to go through your CV because we both can read" but as the interview progressed and he got more and more basic facts about me wrong, I started to doubt his reading skills more and more. He seemed very annoyed when I asked questions. Warning bells really went off in my head when he asked me how I would design a new feature and he got irritated when I asked why and which metrics we were targeting. Last but not least, a quite minor detail, but still something that made the interviewer come across as untrustworthy was that he used a profile picture depicting a much younger slimmer version of himself.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Say you were designing a feature to order rides on behalf of someone else. How would you go about doing that? What are you the most proud off in your career?