After a phone screen on behavioral/fit - was scheduled full loop of 5 1-hr interviews. Mostly system design and behavioral ones were asked. Mostly behavioral, past experience, design, fit related questions.
The answers do not matter much - your deep experience with those technologies do.
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Example topics: Memcached, Kafka, Blocking queue. With remote interviewers, design can be tough since no whiteboard used normally.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Uber (Hyderabad) in Apr 2017
Interview
Called inhouse for about 7 rounds of interview. 4 totally technical, 2 tech+behaviour and one HR round. They seemed to be interested in hiring me (evident from them making me meet upper management) but then didn't offer.
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Questions on tree, graphs, greedy algorithm, my current project and 2 behavioral interviews
Multi round interview. Started with online meeting with online editor. Had to switch camera on for some company policy - don't understand the real reason for not trusting the candidate. Expectation was to get correct output code for 2 problems in 40 mins - seems unfair considering you are coding on unfamiliar web IDE. Went ok for me. Following is onsite interview review. 4.5 hrs spent on site for 3 interviews.
Overall experience is marked negative because
1. I felt interviewers were rigid on expected solution on a non-calibrated design question. I still doubt their solution will work. Read thru answers to think about details.
2. Compared to other companies in this pay bracket the interview was unstructured (leave out coding round).
3. The reason for rejection given to me was not even checked in interviews.
Given two async streams -
Trip : {tripId, date, city}
Bill: {billId, tripId, date, amount}
Design a system to get real time aggregated view of following nature
City, TripCount, TotalAmount
Events in both streams can be out of sync or duplicate. But result needs to be accurate and realtime.