Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Sunnyvale, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My coding rounds for Uber were very DSA-heavy, and the tone felt demanding from the start.

The graph-related part stood out: I was asked something centered on topological sorting, along with other core DSA questions. It felt like the interviewer wanted to see whether I really had LeetCode-hard level familiarity, not just surface patterns.

Alongside that, I also had a separate coding interview that looked like a slightly modified LeetCode-style problem. It wasn’t a graph problem and didn’t feel like the most “typical” Uber question I’d heard about, which caught me off guard. Still, it was solvable if I focused and thought carefully, and the time pressure felt reasonable—just not

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