Uber·Backend Engineer

Uber Backend Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment that looked like classic LeetCode-style practice—medium to hard—and it focused heavily on DSA topics like arrays, strings, trees/graphs, heaps, and dynamic programming.

I remember that time complexity and edge cases were emphasized, so it wasn’t enough to produce something that worked on the obvious path.

After that, the next steps included multiple technical interviews. These were live coding sessions, often centered on system or data-structure style problem solving rather than a perfectly canned “one-liner” LeetCode exercise. I also had a system design interview with backend focus where they asked for both high-level and low-level design of scalable systems, with examples connected to ride matching, trip pricing, notifications, and payments.

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