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Uptime Crew is a technology company focused on providing reliability, monitoring, and infrastructure support services to help businesses maintain system availability. It appears to be a smaller startup operating in the DevOps and site reliability space.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Uptime Crew·Software Engineer·Onsite - Coding / Algorithms

Jun 2026
Coding round at Uptime Crew for a Software Engineer role. One problem, but it was a nastier variant of a known Leetcode problem and the expected solution was stricter than what most people prep for.
  • Given an n x n grid where some cells are marked as thief cells, find a path from the top-left to the bottom-right corner that maximizes the minimum Manhattan distance to any thief cell. If multiple paths tie on that safeness score, return the shortest one among them.

“I knew the base problem and went straight for binary search plus BFS, which felt clean.”

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Uptime Crew·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Technical screen at Uptime Crew for a Software Engineer role, focused entirely on shell scripting and numeric processing. Pretty niche stuff, not the usual leetcode grind.
  • Write a bash one-liner or short script that reads from a file or stdin, pulls out all numeric values (integers, decimals, negatives), and prints their sum.

“I went straight for grep piped into awk, which worked for the basic case.”

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Uptime Crew·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026
SQL-heavy technical screen at Uptime Crew for a Software Engineer role. The main problem was a CASE statement categorization query with NULL handling, which sounds straightforward until the edge cases start piling up.
  • Write a SQL query that uses CASE statements to categorize rows based on multiple conditional rules, handles NULL values using COALESCE, NULLIF, or IS NULL checks, and produces derived columns suitable for downstream aggregation.

“The schema wasn't given upfront so I had to ask, which felt awkward but was probably the right move.”

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