Uber·Software Engineer

Uber Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

L4Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through Uber’s loop for an L4 SDE-2 Backend position and ended up receiving an offer.

The process started with a coding test on HackerRank, where I had two medium-to-hard questions and was able to solve both.

After that, I had a screening round focused on two DSA questions. One was a circuit breaker concept, framed as an LLD-style problem. The other involved graph logic where I worked through DFS leading into a DFS → Dijkstra type of approach.

Overall, the hardest part didn’t feel like figuring out the single technique—it felt like keeping the implementation and reasoning consistent across two separate problems with different flavors. I felt pretty solid after completing

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