I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Uber
Interview
Telephone interview, the interviewer is very kind and patient. The interview questions are given very clearly. After coding question, the interviewer give thorough introduction on the team he currently working on. Nice overall experience!
Online Assessment / Coding Round
Usually LeetCode-style problems (medium-hard).
Focus on DSA (arrays, strings, trees, graphs, heaps, dynamic programming).
Time complexity + edge cases are important.
Technical Interviews (2–3 rounds)
Coding: Live coding, often around system/data structures.
System Design (Backend focus): High-level + Low-level design of scalable systems (e.g., ride matching, trip pricing, notifications, payments).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ese are usually LeetCode medium–hard:
Implement LRU Cache.
Given a stream of integers, design a system to return the kth largest element at any time.
Find the shortest path between two nodes in a graph (Dijkstra, BFS).
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Uber (Santiago) in Jun 2025
Interview
Long, heavy leetcode testing, had to go through 5 different interviews for an entry level position, including soft skills and technical testing, but very transparent regarding what to expect and how to prepare for each step
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify substrings (of any length) from an array within a larger string, and replace them with their capitalized version
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Uber
Interview
OA assignment and a little bit difficult for me, after finish the OA, the full grade is 500 or 700 and I just got 300, so ofc I cant enroll to the next step.
Software Engineer, Backend applicants have rated the interview process at Uber with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer, Backend roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Uber overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Uber as a Software Engineer, Backend according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
Presentation: 23%
One on one interview: 15%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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