The bar of Uber phone interview

Feb 7, 2018 45 Comments

I had a phone screen with Uber. Finished two coding exercises in the session. (About 45 mins as we spent some time talking and ended the session earlier). One is a medium problem in Leetcode which I had complete running code with some tests and the interviewer verified the results were correct. As for another one I had the code with right solution but didn’t have a chance to run it as the interviewer got what I was trying to do and used the last few mins for any questions I had.

But I got rejected after a few days. Is the bar to Uber so high and the expectation is to finish more than two medium problems in a 1 hour phone screen ? I am pretty sure I got the solution for the first problem right as I put my code in Leetcode and the solution beats 50% of others. And from the interviewer’s reaction I got he second problem right too. Do they compare candidates they have received so far or they do have a consistent bar for the phone screen?

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TOP 45 Comments
  • Maybe they didn't reject you due to coding skill.
    Feb 7, 2018 10
  • Cisco
    khalisi

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    khalisi
    what were the problems
    Feb 7, 2018 4
  • Bullshit. Seems that leetcode reduced the interview process to: code fast & correct & nothing else matters. While I imagine some interviewers may be that way (aka chinese) , the sane majority wants to see how you communicate, how you think about the problem, and if you are a nice person in general.
    Feb 7, 2018 0
  • Uber
    PM_ME_CODE

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    PM_ME_CODE
    50% of the TPS is answering correctly, the rest is on communication and attention to detail. The main consideration is "do you think this candidate will be successful in an onsite."
    Feb 7, 2018 0
  • Coursera / Other
    L🐙L

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    L🐙L
    It’s not about coding fast and getting the right answer. A big factor is how you communicate your thought process. Most likely the interviewer isn’t familiar with the solution you memorized, so you need to explain at every step why you’re doing what you’re doing. Make sure the interviewer is following along. Give a chance for the interviewer to get on your page by asking them “does this make sense to you”. That kind of collaborative approach will get you very far, to the point where they most likely give you a high score just because they can imagine how great it would be to work with you.

    This has worked well for me. I went on an onsite interview spree recently with Yelp, Uber, LinkedIn, and Google. At every one of these places, the feedback was always super high because of the high communication skills the interviewers gave me.
    Feb 9, 2018 3