I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in Oct 2015
Interview
I was referred by a friend. After that I had a basic phone screen to see who I was. After that, I had two technical phone screens. It took about one week for them to schedule the first one and then I waited two more weeks until the second. The first was pretty easy, a basic array algorithm questions that you would find in Cracking the Coding Interview. The second phone screen was much harder. There was only one question, but was much more involved to answer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
(Easier) You have a sorted array of integers. Find the element where the array index is equal to the value of the corresponding element. Or return that no such element exists.
(Harder) You have a dictionary of words. Create a matrix of letters such that each row of the matrix is a word and each column of the matrix is a word. Kind of like a very dense crossword puzzle.
Very smooth, interviewers were friendly, on-site and all interviews in the same day. Managed to grab lunch and talk about the company culture. Good guidance throughout the process. Two coding, two system design, one bar raiser, one hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something about bus stops on a map, compute positions from an API
I applied online. I interviewed at Uber in May 2026
Interview
The interview process begins with an initial BFS screening to evaluate overall fit and relevant experience, followed by three virtual onsite interviews that focus on coding ability, an in-depth discussion of technical background and past projects, as well as behavioral and collaboration-related questions to assess communication and teamwork skills.