Uber interview notes, page 36 of 61

“I went with DFS and it worked fine, but I wasted probably two minutes overthinking whether BFS would be more impressive.” 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.

“I started top-down and then tried to sanity check with a bottom-up pass, which I think helped.” 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.

“I thought I had this figured out in the first two minutes and then spent the next fifteen realizing I did not.” 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.

“Went in having seen something similar on a prep forum so I had a rough idea.” 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.

“This was a weird opener and I didn't expect it.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“I picked a project with decent numbers and talked through it as situation-action-result.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Uber, Hiring Manager 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 just BFS from 0 and count wrong-direction edges.” 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 problem I got through fine.” 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.

“I recognized the palindrome-via-bitmask pattern pretty quickly since I'd seen something similar before, but the node-vs-edge distinction tripped me up for a bit.” 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.

“Took me a few minutes to really internalize the recursive part.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.