I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2014
Interview
I applied online and got contacted by a recruiter very soon after. He was very nice and told me about the company in some detail. He then proceeded to tell me that there was a coding challenge that I had to complete before applying. I agreed to do the challenge and got the details.
For the challenge you get to pick one of a few applications that they want you to build. They say that it should only take you 4 hours, but I actually worked on it for the better of 2 days and still felt like I was missing details when I went through the code during the phone screen.
The phone screen is a 40 minute interview about the code you wrote. I got the feeling they were expecting a much more thorough job than the challenge suggests. In retrospect, I would have taken care of a lot more of my TODOs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My coding challenge had to calculate the nearest transit stop given your current location. They asked for an efficient way to do this. The answer ended up being something I was not familiar with, Mongo DB and such database geo location built in functions.
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.