Uber | SDE-2 | Frontend

Background - Currently working as frontend engineer in India's leading quick-commerce company having 2 years and 10 months of experience.

I interviewed for a role at Uber where all the interview rounds were scheduled to be completed in a single day, provided I cleared the initial eliminator round.

Round - 1 ( elimnatory round )

1. In this round got a dsa question which was pretty easy, it was related to priority_queue
2. Then a JS currying question
3. Then had discussions on my projects

After 10 mins recutier told me result was positive and they are moving with next 4 rounds.

Round - 2 ( Problem solving round )
Question was related to method chaining and promises, queue
question ->

new UberDriver()
  .pick("TestUser")
  .pick("Rahul")
  .drive(2)
  .drop("Rahul")
  .drive(4)
  .drop("TestUser")
  .rest(10);

output ->

Hello uber driver is online
User TestUser is picked
User Rahul is picked
Driver is driving     <-- wait 2 seconds
Drop Rahul
Driver is driving     <-- wait 4 seconds
Drop TestUser
Driver is in offline mode <-- wait 10 seconds

was able to solve it correctly in half an hour
then she extends the question with some followups like if i have to give priority to users, how will the code behave, what all changes we have to make, i discuss the approach not able to code it but interviewer seems happy

-> It was strong-hire call

Round - 3 ( Machine coding round )
Need to build a memory game
[ was the exaclty same question)
it was a very easy task for me, i tell him the approach how i will solve it in react, but then he told me to do it vanilla js with proper optimization
completed it in 45 minutes , then discussion on my projects

-> I was expecting a strong hire but got hire call ( feedback -> candidate lack in writing optimise code in vanilla )

Round - 4 ( System design round )
Asked me design google calendar

1. functional requirements ( satisfied )
2. non functional ( satisfied )
3. MVC architecture + server communication ( not satisfied )
4. data models ( satisfied )
5. apis -> ( not satisfied ig ), he grill me on graphql query for paginated data for week view and month view, and how caching works with graphql
6. client storage -> ( satisfied )
7. optimization -> (satisfied)

-> Lean hire

Round - 5 ( HM round )
Unfortunately, this round didn’t go well for me.

The first 10 minutes were quite rough due to internet issues, which seemed to frustrate the hiring manager and set a negative tone early on.
Once we got started, I tried to walk him through my projects, but he struggled to connect with them. I made multiple attempts to clarify, but I don’t think it landed well from his perspective.
I also spoke about the web performance optimizations and engineering efforts we implemented, but it seems he didn’t find them impactful enough in the context of what they were looking for.

-> No hire ( feedback -> No major impactful work demonstrated )

End result - The recruiter mentioned that if the hiring manager had marked me as a strong hire, they would’ve moved forward. Since that wasn’t the case, they’ve asked me to reapply after 6 months.