I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
I interviewed at Uber in Decemer 2015.
Overall, the interview was not hard at all.
First, a quick call with the recruiter, then a phone screen and then an invitation on site.
The technical questions were not very hard and nothing unexpected: hashmap, BST, simplified DP problems and etc. Interviewers were nice to talk to. I've learned quite a lot about Uber and it was pretty cool. I think I did pretty well but there were a couple if hiccups, especially at the end of the day when I got tired. Also, I might have asked too many questions about Uber's work-life balance :) So next day I was told that I am not a good fit for Uber.
However, my good impression about the interviewing process and the team was undermined by what happened next.
I interviewed at HQ and they gave me a promotional code so I can use Uber to get there from south bay area. The code didn't work so I just used my credit card to pay for the rides to and from Uber. The recruiter onsite told me to submit the expenses and they would reimburse that. Their form says it takes 15 days to get the money back but I haven't heard from them for about 40 days already. And the most disappointing thing is that the recruiters just ignore my emails.
Common, Uber you got more than $6B in funding, I am sure you can afford being honest to your promises :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
nothing unexpected, standard questions on programming.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Sent my profile and got scheduled the phone interview. Interviewer was very junior person and has no interviewing skills. It was not clear from the interview what I was supposed to do, either design or coding. Finally I spent 1 hour in total misunderstanding. Hopefully Uber assigns good interviewers with good communication skills and experience to assess the people. From the interview process, I could make out lots of recent grads, young engineers are working there. Anyway, not so impressed.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
The interview process was straight forward. One technical phone interview and four onsite interviews (one coding, two architecture / systems design, one culture fit). The process itself was quite slow as it took a few weeks to schedule both the phone interview and the onsite due to the extremely high volume of applicants that Uber is processing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Large focus on system architecture as well as standard CTCI questions