I applied at Uber through its online portal. I got a call for a video interview in a week. Shared Screen Interview: The interviewer asked my about the cool stuff that I had done in Android and talked around it. He later went on to a simple programming question which I had to code on a shared screen. Though the question was pretty easy but I think the intent was to see my coding style. At the end of the first interview, he told me about the entire interview process and informed I will be receiving a home assignment if I get through the first one. After two days I received the assignment which had to done in 3 days. The assignment was to build an app using the api's they have provided. I got it done on time and was called for an onsite interview soon after it. The onsite interview consisted of 5 rounds. Product Design, OOD, Assignment Code Review, Algorithms and Data Structure, Android. Product Design: The first interview was about making me comfortable and to get a sense of my product design capabilities. They asked about my experience with designing a product, I had done some stuff but that wasn't much. So they asked me a real life problem, the key to which was keep asking them your specific questions and come up with the solution you think would do the needful. I found the interview very fun and refreshing. Went great. OOD: They asked me how would I design an app like Uber or something similar. Here I had to talk about the big building blocks of the systems and the meaningful classes. But I was stuck in the smaller picture and how would I code the same. Went pretty bad I guess. Code Review: The interviewer looked around my code and kept asking me why I made those decisions. He also advised what could have been the better practice. He was mainly focussing on my coding principles and how correctly have I solved the problem. Unfortunately I made a hack which I realised in the interview :). Went fine but the hack! DSA: Contrary to the common belief, this interview was pretty straight forward. There were no questions on DP, Graphs or complicated trees. The questions I was asked were on threads, linked lists and a easy problem with a hash map solution. The interviewer did not care much about the toughness of the problem but rather my approach. Went fine. Android: I was asked about every major Android components. I mostly knew all that I have used, but still feel it is good to know all of it. Went cool. I was informed about the decision in a matter of hours on the same day. The lead recruiter gave me the feedback on a phone call, which helped me in knowing what went wrong and what went right. Uber had a nice office in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. The guys were very friendly and the overall environment was like a middle aged start-up. It never felt like an interview, but more of a discussion with colleagues. I had to arrange everything on my own for travel but I got the reimbursement on time.

Applied online through my University portal. Two skype interviews of one hour each. Good questions asked. Data structures and algorithms questions asked in each interview. Any language was ok. Interviewer was friendly. In-detail questions asked about Android development. Overall good learning experience even though I was out in second round.