Uber Interview Experience/Offer
Interviewed with Uber for a mobile backend role, senior level. Recruiter seemed really disorganized. Probably the worst candidate experience I’ve had in terms of getting facts straight and making the process clear. Ended up having three system design rounds, two of which were calibrations from outside of the team itself and were “standard” system design interviews. I have no distributed systems experience, so was mostly flying by the seat of my pants with a handful of YouTube videos I watched. One went okay, one wasn’t great. Have 10+ yoe, backend focused but all small companies outside of tech hubs. Ended up getting an offer for a 5a, which was a downlevel from previous roles. However, had strong competing offers and came away with: Base: $203k Equity: $960k Target bonus: $35k Sign on: $65k (over 2 years) Competing offers seemed to be what pushed equity high. Original offer had < $700k equity and no sign on.
What other competing offers you got What was the system design question??
Competing offer was a series C fintech that seemed really keen to have me join the team. System design were what you’d get if you Google around for Uber system design questions.
Nice, what was the competing offer amount?
Uber reached out to me to interview, I accepted, they then ghosted me 😂
Yeah the Uber process was awful. Unclear requirements, a lot of scrambling for scheduling on their end, lackluster prep materials. There is enough info out there to do your own DD, though, and know what to expect
Uber does 35% equity first year, so over $600k year one.
Can I interview to get paid like a new hire as an existing Uber employee? SMH
I feel you. New hires right now have a gold mine.
Why do new hires get paid more? Are there no refreshers at Uber?
Did they ask for an official offer to compete or verbal offer was enough ?
Verbal was enough, on both sides
Uber laid off all their recruiting staff at the beginning of the pandemic and now it is all outsourced. It’s not a good representation of the company and it’s just as frustrating on this side of the ball unfortunately.
Location ?
Just want to say, my Uber recruiter experience was super solid. It was even better than Amazon which itself is pretty well polished. Perhaps I got lucky or you got unlucky but for people reading this in the future, it’s not all bad 🤣
$960k in equity? Wow