Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with a phone screen, and it wasn’t even from LeetCode in the usual sense—it felt like it belonged to the LC hard category.

I managed to solve it without hints, and all my test cases passed when I ran the solution. That set a confident tone.

On the virtual onsite, I ended up with five rounds. The first coding round was a hard-ish problem I didn’t need hints for, and again my test cases passed. I also got asked to reduce the time complexity and walked through my reasoning. The second coding round was directly from a LeetCode Hard-style prompt, and I solved it without hints as well.

Design went well in both rounds, including a strong performance in the later hands-on design and a hiring manager conversation that

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