Uber | L3 | Bangalore | Interview Experience

About me:
College: Tier 2
Education: BTech( IT )
Years of Experience: 1 year 8 months
Previous company: MNC Bank
Prev Comp: 18 LPA

Role: SDE 1 (L3)
Comapany: Uber
Status: Cleared & Offer Accepted

Round 1: Online Assessment
4 leetcode Questions. Solved 3 completely and 1 partially.

Round 2: Technical Interview 1 (DSA + Debugging)
Duration: 60 mins

Question: Given a log file with rider information (name, city_visited, timestamp), make unique triplets of cities visited by the order of the timestamp and return the number of riders for each triplet that have visted those cities in the exact same order.

Follow-up:
a. if the information is too large for it to be stored in memory.
b. if you want to solve this faster.

Solved optimally. The interviewer was happy with the answer.

Tip: Think aloud. Discuss solution before coding. Ask as many clarifying questions as needed.

Round 3: Design (L3-focused)
Duration: 60 mins

Ouestion: Given an employee management system, write the code for
a. adding an employee under a manager
b. giving the total count under a manager

Started with different approach but eventually realised the fault in my thinking pattern and had enough time to start over after explaining my thoughts to interviewer.

Round 4: Behavioral + Project Deep Dive (EM Round)
Questions:
Discussions around my work experience and projects.
STAR questions: team conflict, conflicted opinion with manager over a decision, fast delivery under pressure, why uber

Verdict: Cleared/ Offer Accepted

After 4 days, recruiter informed me that it's a hire call and we can proceed with the team matching.
After 10-15 days had a call with hiring manager.
took 20 days for offer rollout from thr day of verdict.

Compensation: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/6696559/uber-l3-bengaluru-accepted-by-anonymous_-pcyk/
GS interview Ex: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/6725538/goldman-sachs-analyst-gbm-interview-expe-0wh0/