I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in May 2023
Interview
Got scheduling invite very quickly after I applied. Scheduled a call next day. But all went downhill from there. Very aggressive east coast style for the tone and content of interview. Also bureaucratic and pushing me through the process (like a cow in a herd) with little to no flexibility. Approved me for next round, but we failed at scheduling. I sent availability but heard crickets. Followed up and heard they were on vacation. Backup people unresponsive at scheduling a call. After their vacation I learned they already filled the role. What a big waste of time.
Very difficult. Totally unwarranted questions. Many times ghosted by recruiters. Hiring managers have unrealistic expectations. Most of the time they interview to get innovative ideas from candidates. Please do a favor, and reduce the number of interviews. And for recruiters, if you are planning to ghost candidates , just don't email them
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2022
Interview
multistage interview beginning with the team lead. That interview was interesting and went well, but felt a little gimmicky with many questions related to hypothetical scenarios regarding non-existant uber products and services. Second stage interview was described as a cooperative jam session. I was asked to research questions related to a prompt and build a presentation. On the day of the interview, the team lead and one other member were part of the session. Aside from being consistently derailed by more hypothetical scenarios (most of which were unrelated to the provided prompt), the new team member did not give their full attention to the process and would ask questions about the prompt that were previously answered. The interviewing team seemed to insist on a specific solution to the prompt which the research suggested was not an optimal solution and to which I provided alternatives. This still was not enough and the interviewing team continued asking for other ways to make this hypothetical scenario work (this lasted maybe 30 minutes). Due to these interruptions and derailing, we were unable to go through the requested research and prompt exercise in the interview. Ultimately I did not move forward in the process with the stated reason being that requested research and prompt exercise were not completed (they were in the presentation, but the interviewing team wanted to focus on other hypothetical questions instead).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to address problems related to hypothetical uber products and services Ways to make a hypothetical solution work (if answered in a way to implement the solution, questions related to addressing problems; if answered in a way that discourages using the solution, questions related to making the solution work) Prompt/exercise related to product management (user pain points, user journeys, etc.)