Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

MediumCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for an SDE 2 position at Uber, and my second round was a DSA round.

I started with a brute force approach, then moved to a dynamic programming solution, and the interviewer eventually gave me hints that pushed me toward a greedy direction.

I did end up coding something at the end after those hints, but when I tested it in Codesignal, some cases weren’t working. The surprising part was that the interviewer still told me my approach and code were correct, even though the platform results didn’t match what I expected.

That made the round feel a bit uneasy because correctness was hard to validate from my side. I left the session believing I had the right idea,

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