Uber interview notes, page 50 of 61

“This is a big question and I burned probably 10 minutes just trying to scope it before drawing anything.” 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.

“My first instinct was to reach for the classic backtracking word search approach and I started explaining it before realizing they said no turning.” 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 had a story ready but it was too clean.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Uber, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is actually a pretty interesting product strategy question if you dig into it.” 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.

“The palindrome condition clicked pretty fast for me, at most one character with odd frequency, so you can encode a path as a 26-bit XOR mask.” 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 just standard DP, which is right, but I fumbled the setup because I didn't precompute the valid primes ending in 3 before writing the recurrence.” 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 the class hierarchy and got a bit too deep into vehicle subclasses before touching the spot assignment logic, which I think was the wrong order.” 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.

“I jumped straight to the sort-after-squaring approach because my brain went blank on anything cleverer.” 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 beast of a question.” 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 first thing I fumbled was not asking whether endpoints touching counts as overlapping.” 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.