Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Uber loop for an SDE 2 role started with a recruiter screen, then I moved into a hiring manager round that blended product thinking with execution.

That round leaned heavily into OOP-flavored algorithm work in languages like Python or Java, plus a higher-level system design discussion.

Once I got to the onsite, the pace picked up fast—five back-to-back one-hour rounds. The topics covered a mix of data structures/algorithms coding, database management with a lot of SQL and how data lifecycles work, deep systems design, and behavioral. The system design interview was the most intense part for me: I had to walk through building a scalable real-time gaming leaderboard, discussing architectural tradeoffs, the APIs, and how data would flow

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