Uber interview notes, page 47 of 61

“I'd seen the standard Jump Game before so my first instinct was to just reach for the greedy approach, which was wrong here.” 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 connected components problem, BFS or DFS both work fine.” 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.

“This is the kind of question where you think you know it and then the follow-ups make you realize you only knew half of it.” 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.

“Seen this one floating around in other posts so I wasn't totally blindsided.” 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.

“Seemed easy at first and I jumped straight to using one hashmap.” 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 is a monster of a question.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“This was the whole interview basically.” 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.

“First pass I just reached for a temp array and it worked fine, but then they asked me to do it without allocating extra space and I stalled a bit.” 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.

“The simulation part clicked fast but I kept second-guessing the termination conditions.” 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 with age verification as the obvious culprit and the interviewer just kind of nodded and waited, so I kept going.” 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.