Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Uber Senior SWE process felt like a handful of pretty different rounds stacked in sequence.

It started with a business phone screen, then moved into a DSA round, followed by a low-level design round, and then system design was next in my timeline.

In the DSA interview, I ran into a DSU-style connectivity problem with an edge-removal follow-up, and I ended up leaning on a brute-force DFS approach for that part. I also had a longest subarray problem where the key constraint was keeping the max-minus-min difference below a given K. After that came an LLD machine-coding round where I had to design something around tracking merchandise popularity using clicks, returning the top-K

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