Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Uber SDE2 screening round was the toughest part of my loop.

It combined DSA with a system-design component in the same screening step, and I felt like time management was the first thing to break. The DSA topic centered on dynamic programming on trees, specifically a variation of the Optimal Binary Search Tree problem.

I worked through the tree DP reasoning, but the clock kept moving and it ended up leaving me with no real runway for the system design portion in the same session. By the end, I could tell I’d spent too long trying to get the DP fully right instead of rationing time across both areas.

It ultimately didn’t lead to an offer for me. The

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