Uber Interview Experiences & Questions
16 real Uber interviews shared by candidates: every round, the questions they were asked, how they answered, and whether they got the offer. Latest: Jun 2026.
What to expect at Uber
Based on 16 real interviews
By role
The Uber interview process
Most common round types: Behavioral (8), Coding (6), Technical (6), System Design (4), Analytical (4), Execution (3).
Real Uber interview questions
- Can you introduce yourself and walk me through your education, tenure, and work experience?
- Tree or graph question
- Solve a variation of Number of Islands.
- Why did you choose dedicated pickup zones for the event experience, and why not a different solution?
- How would you design the gift card redemption flow?
- Using the order and merchant data, what is the average number of orders per eater overall, per member, and per non-member for the week of April 11 to April 17?
- Tell me about a time when you raised the bar.
- Tell me about a project.
- Design the Uber Eats homepage.
- How would you make Uber to and from large events with 10,000+ attendees a magical experience for riders and drivers?
- The San Francisco office has more employees who want parking than spaces, and it's first come first serve. People aren't happy. What would you do?
- How would you 4x adoption of Uber Grocery?
- Can you explain one of the most prominent projects on your resume?
- Given the root of a binary tree, return the length of the diameter of the tree.
- Solve a Uber-tagged Leetcode question.
- How do you work cross-functionally, unblock engineering, and prioritize features?
- How would you design an A/B test for this?
- Using the merchant and order data, which cuisine types and restaurants are performing best?
- Tell me about your greatest success.
- Tell me about a project that failed.
- Design a new food startup.
- Can you write SQL queries live and explain some core SQL concepts?
- Why do you want to work at Uber?
- Find distance between two points in a graph.
- How do you work with data scientists and engineers?
- We have a lot of data on people ordering rides for other people. How would you evaluate whether there is a problem and where would you start?
- Please complete the full Excel analysis and submit your work product.
- Tell me about a time you dove deep.
- Can you walk me through your background, comp expectations, and interest in the role?
- Design a product roadmap for Netflix Ads.
- Design a car rental system.
- How do you balance tech debt with feature priorities?
- If a very senior stakeholder tells you, 'I need you to fix this,' how would you respond?
- In your last-mile role, how did you scale the product to new countries?
- Uber Eats design questions
- Design a stock ticker system.
- Uber is launching autonomous vehicles alongside human-driven cars. How would you decide whether to launch, and what would your success metrics be?
- How have you worked with designers in the past?
- What would you launch for riders to signal when they feel uncomfortable in an Uber?
- LLD Round question was first time visitors
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All 16 Uber interview experiences
“They took my Power BI project apart step by step, from ETL and Power Query to row-level security, and then switched straight into live SQL on window functions. It felt less like a trick interview…”
“interview process is very lengthy took around 5 weeks, and expectations is very high in each round, for LLD working code is required, also dont mess your HM round since i felt like it contained more…”
“The process was smooth and candidate friendly. The recruiter gave enough context about the rounds. I found the feedback received was at a very high level and not much details were shared…”
“Rehearsing your take-home top-down isn't actually that helpful. There were so many curveballs thrown in the middle of the jam session that it would be almost impossible to just read a script and go…”
“Got rejected for the jam session where the interviewers were senior leadership. The hiring manager round and the design collaboration round went fairly well.”
“The process was well-structured — it started with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview, and then a virtual onsite with 4–5 rounds covering coding, system design, and…”
“The interview consists of two parts: a 45 min LC style coding and 15 mins conversation on your prior projects. The 45 min question was to build an arithmetic evaluator. For that, you have to use the…”
“If I were doing it again, I would spend less time trying to grind every Uber-tagged LeetCode problem and more time on two things: their engineering blog and getting my behavioral framing right for…”
“The online tech assessment was on the hard side. 2 Medium-to-Hard questions in 90 minutes. Hidden test cases in CodeSignal was a challenge.”
“The process involved two coding rounds and a system design interview. The coding rounds went smoothly - I was comfortable with the data structures involved, including a question on binary indexed…”
“It was a much more intense case study than other roles I’ve seen. It look me roughly a week to do end to end with lots of data to analyze. Interviewers jump in throughout to ask questions and grill…”
“The recruiter was nice. The interviewer was also very nice. But, the process was rigourous. Probably the most difficult techinical screen interview I have given in my career. My nervousness added to…”
“The process was straightforward. Recruiter set the expectations of each round early in the process. The interviewers were very candid and professional, with straight focus on case solving using MECE…”
“Lyft rejected me after the SQL take-home because I built this whole Python pipeline to pull from their locked spreadsheet and they were basically like, this could have been done with simpler query…”
“The engineering round turned into a straight up 45 minute system design jam on gift card redemption, and when he asked about Kafka I was like, "I know more about Kafka the author than the tech."”
“The two product cases I had was very out of the box and I was thrown off. The final product jam round on Uber Eats was rapid fire.”
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds are in the Uber interview?
Candidates report a typical 3 rounds, usually including a recruiter screen, online assessment, phone screen, take-home assignment.
How hard is the Uber interview?
Candidates rate it 3.8/5 on average (difficult), across 16 interviews.
How long does the Uber hiring process take?
About 4 weeks from first contact to decision, based on reported timelines.
What percentage of Uber candidates get an offer?
33% of candidates with a final result got an offer (5 of 15).
What does the Uber interview focus on?
The most common round types are Behavioral, Coding, Technical, System Design.