Uber interview notes, page 17 of 61

“I went broad way too fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Uber, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me a beat to recognize this as a binary search on the answer problem rather than a greedy or DP thing.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent the first few minutes overcomplicating it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled in a way I didn't expect.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The receipt object is what actually gets graded, not whether your strategy code is pretty.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard stuff.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to track a global variable and do a standard DFS, which ended up being the right call.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew immediately it was an in-order traversal thing since BST in-order gives you sorted order.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic union-find setup once you see it, but I spent a minute fumbling around thinking about BFS before the structure clicked.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The base version of this problem is pretty well known but the cost-minimization twist changed the whole approach.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Uber, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.