Uber Software Engineer interview experience

I went through rounds that included a parking-lot implementation, a refueling algorithm, a ride-hailing low-level design, a stock-price alert system, and then a hiring manager behavioral round.

What surprised me early was how often they expected production-quality code rather than just pseudocode. In the parking-lot system, we started at a higher level with components treated as black boxes, and then the interviewer pushed me to implement portions as fully executable code. They evaluated things like which data structures I chose, how clean the final code was, and the efficiency of the key