Software Engineer 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 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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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in Aug 2016
Interview
I applied for a software engineer position online. After about a week, a HR contacted me to schedule a phone interview, mostly questions about my background and interest. Then there is another phone interview with a senior engineer. We talked about some of my experiences and projects, almost nothing technical. Three days later, I got an email saying they want someone with more experience.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
Was referred to a recruiter through a friend, and settled on a date for a phone interview.
The phone interview was with someone pretty fresh out of college, and I got the sense he didn't really know what he was doing. The question format was somewhat disorganized, but I was able to pass this round with some pseudo code the interviewer was happy with. The interviewer assumed I was applying for a front-end position and wanted me to code in javascript/angular, when I was applying for a backend position and didn't know any of the languages he was looking for.
On-site, I interviewed with about 5 people before ending the day. Some of my interviewees seemed frazzled when coming in; I got the impression they were pretty stressed out. None of the questions I was asked were particularly hard. The company gives you a laptop to code on for your interview, but interviewers were pretty happy with just coding on a whiteboard instead. None of my interviewers knew the password to the laptop anyway.
I got an offer from Uber, but had the offer revoked when I started asking some questions about what it's like to work there to the manager. I got the impression some of my interviewers weren't really all that happy which raised a few alarms for me. The stock compensation was generous, but the company refused to budge on anything else in a very take it or leave it kind of attitude. It's insulting how they try to come across as doing you a favor when you did all the work in preparing for the interview loop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two system design questions, one question where you talk about your former work experience, and two coding questions.