Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

L4Posted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For an SDE-II interview at Uber (level L4), my first round was an in-person BPS-style screening.

The question came from a grid pathing vibe: there was a starting cell and a destination cell, plus normal cells, and I had to think about minimum moves and a minimum battery constraint that sounded like closely related requirements.

I remember trying to connect the framing to the right shortest-path style approach, and the interviewer kept it focused on translating those constraints into an algorithmic model. The discussion was centered on how the “minimum moves” and “minimum battery” requirements map to the state and transitions.

It was an early gate, and I didn’t progress further, but the

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