Uber Software Engineer interview experience

The prompt had an Uber shuttle with n seats in a single row labeled from 0 to n minus 1. When someone hopped on, the rider would naturally pick the seat that maximized how far they were from the nearest fellow rider—the “most comfortable” seat in terms of distance.

After that screening, the process moved into a BPS interview, but at the time I was mostly focused on waiting for feedback from that stage. The part that stood out to me was how quickly the problem turned into reasoning about distances and seat choices rather than something abstract. I didn’t have a final result in what I wrote