🚀 Uber SDE II Backend Interview Experience
💼 Experience: 3 years 3 months
👨💻 Current Role: Software Engineer at a FAANG company in India
🎓 Education: B.Tech, CS, Tier 1, India
💰 Current Compensation: ₹33 LPA
I recently interviewed for an SDE II Backend Engineering role at Uber. Sharing the complete process and questions asked for anyone preparing for Uber interviews.
📝 Application
I applied directly through the Uber career portal without a referral.
After around 5 days, I received an email from a recruiter to schedule the initial recruiter call. I scheduled the call for the following week.
📞 Round 1 — Recruiter Screening
The recruiter screening was primarily an alignment and fitment discussion.
Some of the topics discussed:
- Current role and experience
- Why I am looking to switch
- Projects I have worked on
- Backend vs frontend experience
- Technologies I have worked with
- Overall technical background
✅ Result: Cleared
Based on the discussion, the recruiter scheduled the Business Phone Screen, which was the first elimination round.
The Business Phone Screen was scheduled around 3 weeks after the recruiter call.
💻 Round 2 — Business Phone Screen — DSA
⏱️ Duration: 60 minutes
The round was focused on Data Structures & Algorithms.
Question
First Unique Number — 99% similar to the LeetCode problem
I was able to solve the problem using the optimal approach.
✅ Result: Hire
After this round, I was moved to the onsite interview loop.
The onsite consisted of:
- 2 DSA rounds
- 1 HLD round
- 1 Behavioral round
💻 Round 3 — DSA
Question
Design Hit Counter — 99% similar to the LeetCode problem
The version I received had three methods:
put(element)getCount(element)getTotalCount()— total count across all elements
✅ Result: Hire
🏗️ Round 4 — HLD
Question
Design a chat application similar to ChatGPT
The application needed to support:
- Starting a new chat
- Continuing a previous chat
- Other similar requirements
I had prepared for HLD primarily using Hello Interview. However, during the actual interview, I got stuck at a few places and made several silly mistakes. I wasn't able to recover well enough during the interview.
❌ Result: No Hire
💻 Round 5 — DSA
Question
My Calendar I — 99% similar to the LeetCode problem
❌ Result: No Hire
🤝 Round 6 — Behavioral
The behavioral round focused primarily on previous work experiences and situations.
Some of the questions asked were:
- Tell me about a time when there was a conflict. How did you resolve it?
- Tell me about your most challenging project.
- Tell me about a time when you received critical feedback.
- Tell me about a time when you had to write suboptimal code because of time constraints.
- Other similar behavioral and collaboration questions.
✅ Result: Hire
📌 Final Outcome
❌ Rejected
📌 All Interview Outcome
I have been applying to jobs since May 2026 and actively interviewing. Below is the list of companies where I have interviewed till now. Will keep updating this.
