Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Uber with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2016
Interview
Applied to a job listing online and heard back from a recruiter within a week. Scheduled a chat with the recruiter and went over the position and interview process (1-2 phone screens, depending on performance, and an onsite).
Had my phone interview a week after that with two engineers (one shadowing, who didn't contribute to the interview). We spent the first 10 minutes or so chatting about the work we've been doing at our respective companies and after that, he gave me a CTCI-type question (although not one directly from the book). I came up with and coded a slightly inefficient solution in about ten minutes, did a space and runtime analysis, and spent the rest of the time optimizing it. The interviewer was friendly and encouraging and gave hints when I got stuck and we eventually arrived at the optimal solution. The interviewer was not too concerned with running code (it's easy to get tripped up on random compiler errors in that sort of environment) and mainly seemed to care about the algorithm. He ended the interview by asking "Why Uber?" and opened up the last five minutes to questions.
The recruiter was very prompt and got back to me a couple hours later with next steps and we scheduled an onsite for a week and a half later. She was also open to giving feedback when I asked for more info on things I could improve on for the onsite.
The onsite included five sections: one hiring manager, one coding, one software design, one architecture, and one Uber culture. All interviews started out with around 10 minutes of introductions and ended with 5 minutes of open Q&A. Every section, with the exception of system architecture, included coding on the whiteboard. Since this was my first interview and I had no idea what to expect with design and architecture, I struggled a lot during those sections. When I admitted I didn't have much experience or familiarity with certain topics during those interviews, the interviewers tended to drill down into those areas and expected me to make educated guesses (despite not having anything on which to base those educated guesses). One interviewer also seemed to get impatient when I tried to ask clarifying questions and continuously 'dumbed' down the original question or interrupted me when I tried to reason things out. By the end of the day, I was feeling pretty exhausted and discouraged and tilted on a relatively simple recursive problem that I figured out after walking out of the building.
The recruiter got back to me less than a week after that with feedback and a rejection.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in Jan 2016
Interview
It was a crappy interview process... I had my interviews scheduled and the interviewer from Uber never bothered to Skype call during the interview time. This happened several times with my time wasted repeatedly. Recruiting team takes too long to respond to anything informed to them like they are too busy or something. After wasting my time with repeating interview rescheduling and interviews not showing up.. I give up and never plan to apply to Uber. Uber employees behavior is highly disrespectful to the interviewing candidates and very unprofessional which I did not expect for a company that well funded.
But speaking to them many of whom refused invitations to interview with Uber, Uber interview process seems to be crappy for everyone.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in Jan 2016
Interview
Received an email that expressed interest, had a phone call that seemed simple enough (background questions, etc.). Then started a 3 week charade of Uber being unable to send me the email with the interview project (coding project) for some reason (technical issues, wron