Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a 5-round Uber onsite for a coding-heavy loop—two coding rounds, one system design, and two behavioral rounds.

One of the coding interviews didn’t go optimally, but what really shaped the experience was the tone of a particular interviewer.

In that round, the interviewer kept interrupting me and assuming I didn’t understand basic software fundamentals. Their English wasn’t great, and their questioning style felt esoteric, like they were testing nuance in a way that made it hard to answer confidently. When I asked for clarifications, they still interpreted it as ignorance rather than a language mismatch.

Instead of letting me respond and defend my decisions, they would move on and over-explain, which

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