Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Uber SWE I process started with an elimination-style technical assessment, then moved into a separate coding round, and finally ended with a low-level design round.

The structure was pretty clear up front, but it still felt like a gauntlet where each step mattered.

In the first technical assessment round, I was tested on low-level design concepts. After that, I had a coding round focused on data structures and algorithms. The last step was another low-level design interview, which made the overall loop feel less like pure LeetCode and more like evaluating how I’d break down and reason about system components.

I walked away feeling like the interviewers were deliberately separating fundamentals (coding and DSA) from engineering judgment (low-level

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