Uber interview notes, page 56 of 61

“My first instinct was just brute force every column left to right and scan down.” 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 spent the first minute going too broad, like listing every possible pain point a blind person might have anywhere ever.” 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 knew sliding window was the right move pretty quickly, but fumbled a bit on when to shrink the window versus when to record the answer.” 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 question itself wasn't bad.” 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 just count the set bits and call it a day.” 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 BFS from every zero cell and count neighbors, which technically works but is way too slow on a 500x500 grid.” 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 AUC out of habit and then had to walk it back, which was a bit embarrassing.” 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.

“This is the core of the first round and it runs longer than you'd expect.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Uber, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into features without segmenting users first, which I think hurt me.” 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.

“Classic combo of a hashmap and an array.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend 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.