Like a lot of people mentioned, this process was by far the most challenging and entertaining interview process I have been part of. This interview could set a good standard of comprehensive interview sample which contains recruiter, phone screen, standardized computer test, video, onsite.
1) Contacted by a Recruiter through LinkedIn to do a phone screen. This was a 15 mins conversation asking about an introduction and why choose Uber. After she thought my experience match this job, the recruiter mentioned over the call that I made it to the next step which is the analytical test.
2) 2 hours to complete an analytical test within 48h of receiving link. If advanced Excel is used heavily in your daily life, this should be simple. If not, Pivot table, sort and other basic math functions need to be reviewed. There’re also a few essay questions asking about how to improve Uber, I suggest do some thinking before you take the test. 2 hours was pretty intense to me.
3) Phone interview with a remote manager for 60 mins. 10 mins of going over my resume, then jump to a 45 mins of case type question asking about how to determine price for a certain products. He won’t give any data unless you ask for it. Basically he wants to know if you have right logic about business and good understanding of Uber’s business model-profit model. I felt I did ok, nothing outstanding, nothing wrong either.
3 days later, the Recruiter told me I made it to the 4th round. This schedule took them 2 weeks to schedule. Later on I knew why because this was a panel consist of 6 people.
4) Employee A+B: They focus on management and behavior questions like how to deal with team relationships. (Don’t feel good about myself because some questions are too broad for me to start and I think sometimes I failed to cover sufficient points)
Employee C+D: They focus on case study which will give you certain scenarios and let you think about the reason behind it or how to improve it. Like round 3, I feel good about it. (I’m really good at case study)
Employee E+F: I personally think they’re very high level managers and mainly focus on culture fit. Since you won’t be working with them directly. I feel like in the final decision they’ll only give opinions like “ok to proceed” or “not ok”. As long as you don’t say sth stupid and against Uber’s culture, I think most people will be fine in this round. No case, but more questions like why join Uber, how to deal with diff teammates. Basically make sure this is an easygoing person that will fit the team. (Nothing fancy)
After a week, I was told I wasn’t selected.
Overall, I thought this interview process could set a good example of a complete interview if you never experienced a “completed” interview before. It was intense and challenging. You definitely want to do some study on Uber.
I personally don’t get why it took a month to decide a good candidate and each round of interview has strong similarity. It was a waster of some of their employees’ time.
