Recently interviewed with Uber India (location - Hyderabad) and had a weird interview experience. I had interviewed multiple times with Uber in the past but this is the first time my experience was bad. In the hiring manager round, the manager was yawning on the video call and couldn’t care less about covering his mouth. It felt like he didn’t want to take the interview. System design round was way worse. The interviewer kept on rescheduling the interview. I still waited for half an hour and joined. He first asked how were my other rounds. I replied I am not sure since I ran out of time. He gave me a design question and when I mentioned a specific use case, he started questioning if I even have an idea about how xyz works and it’s pretty obvious that the use case won’t be required. Then I later on added something to my design and he said why didn’t you mention it before. It seemed like he had specific solution in his mind and didn’t want to hear my approach. At the end, he said engineering bar is increasing every month which was pretty irrelevant since I only asked about his experience working at Uber. I personally feel hiring bar is going down at Uber. First time bad experience giving system design round. #tech TC: 0
I had the exact shitty experience. I wanted to write this down but never got the time. The interviewers were not even competent and behaved as if they knew it all. I taught basic tree traversal to one of the interviewers and how I optimised an n^2 solution to o(n), the guy couldn't even understand. He gave me hire but because he didn't understand the solution I started arguing with him as he wanted to hear a shitty solution which he might have seen somewhere. Similarly in system design, the guy was a staff at Uber(shitty tier3 collage when I saw his profile on LinkedIn) and couldn't even understand the very basics of system design. Felt like he mugged up the solution from somewhere and now wants everyone to think exactly that. He couldn't even find fault in my design and kept on getting irritated. All he wanted was to prove me wrong but didn't know how. His feedback: the candidate was not systematic enough(That's all he could write). They all had an inferiority complex when they heard that I'm from Google and kept on proving something. Satisfying their ego. The experience entirely changed my perception towards uber and then multiple friends of mine experienced an exact similar situation. I think there's a reason why Uber employees work more, because they have hired a lot of incompetent folks and now they are afraid of smart people. I had 4 hires out of 5 and still they rejected me. Reason? System design is important for this position. And then the recruiter asked me for a Google referral in the end :)
I understand your frustration. But are you saying your interviewer must be from tier1 college?
I agree, people from these shti tier 3 colleges are not at all at par with people from top colleges. But maybe we should not attribute the behaviour in an interview to college. I am from such a college.
Also he wanted you to have memorized solution step by step.
Probably the manager did not sleep and was burned out. My manager was busy last week dealing with incident till late nights. To be honest many engineers and managers are over worked. I don’t think yarning is a big deal provided the working condition.
As an interviewer, if I am feeling like yawning I would probably say excuse me or cover my mouth. Yawning while the interviewee is answering shows that the interviewer isn’t interested in taking the interview. It felt a bit disrespectful to me, opinions can vary.
Had similar experience, interviewer was sitting laid back in the chair and hands clapsed behind her head. The ego I felt was Like some big shot CEO was taking the interview of a low level position. Made me very uncomfortable in the very first 15 minutes of interview as she was not really interested in knowing what I was saying. I almost somehow stopped myself from asking is there anything wrong here that you are showing me "I don't give a s$$t the door are closed for you" vibes.
I'd do the same if I interviewed a candidate from a company i never heard about
elitist jerk
Work hard punk. Calling people elitist won't do you any good
I had the exact same experience but never got around to writing it. The interviewer kept yawning and giving me vibes that he's not even interested. When I mentioned the work I have done, he was not even trying to understand and kept asking what is my contribution. I explained the impact to him twice, but he still didn't get it. I was really looking forward to joining Uber but felt really bitter after the interview.
Current company and TC? Yeah interviews suck nowadays at lot of companies
Laid off, 0 TC