Uber Interview Questions

Madhuri J. - "Clarifying questions Define ride sharing app: An app for people who wish to go from one place to another and they prefer to share the ride with fellow riders who are heading to the common route. This app provides a way to book a shared cab or Auto. Type of rides: Does not include luxury cars We are trying to enhance customer experience by ensuring less cancellations from user's side rather then cancellation from driver's side. No timelines involved Need to consider competitors"See full answer

Shen W. - "For self achievement, The product manager builds useful products for users and makes the world better. For the team, The product manager can work with the team, and leverage the team resources to make things happen, which is more impactful. For the company, Pm are usually problem solvers, help companies to solve problems and grow better "See full answer

Yespm T. - "First I will talk about this restaurant space in general. Types of restaurants, trends, think about how we can offer something that is differentiated to a viable buyer. Vision / mission of this product User segments - pick one Define user goals, user journey, needs/pain points Think about solutions to their pain points (10 min) Then I’d pick one or two of the solutions and define the features in more detail, as it ties to user journey. I’ll define tradeoffs **1.Restaurant sp"See full answer

Ramachandra N. - " def closest_palindrome(n: str) -> str: """ Finds the closest palindromic number to n (excluding itself). Assumptions: If two palindromes are equally close, return the smaller one. n is a positive integer represented as a string. Time Complexity: O(1) Space Complexity: O(1) """ length = len(n) num = int(n) Helper to build palindrome from a prefix def makepalindrome(prefix: int, isodd_length: bool) -> int: s = str(prefi"See full answer

Harish K. - "So for launching Netflix's first ads program involves introducing a lower-priced ad-supported tier to attract price-sensitive users and boost revenue without loosing existing subscribers. Tier Structure: Offer a "Basic with Ads" tier priced 30-40% below Standard, with 4–5 minutes of ads/hour. Ad Experience: Use pre-roll, mid-roll, and pause ads, ensuring relevance and minimal disruption. Tech & Partnerships: Partner with ad-tech providers for scalable delivery and build a sa"See full answer

Linying W. - "Very helpful! But I have a question: the location of drivers can be changing every minute, so won't reading from location cache returning stale data?"See full answer

Elisa L. - "Being a marketplace, there are two users that Uber wants to satisfy: the rider and the driver. I think the ultimate success metric is related to how well riders and drivers get matched. The ultimate goal for the rider is to get to their destination as efficiently as possible. Some concerns for the rider may be Matching with drivers Minimizing waiting time waiting to be matched and waiting for the driver to arrive Ease of pick-up and drop-off (ie. Driver coming from the opposite side of t"See full answer

Chethan N. - "Build a counter using queue, one queue per service ("a", "b") and one with just timestamps to get the overall load. Build rate limiter service using the counter and interviewer asked if there rate limiter might use a different instance of a counter"See full answer

Preetham m P. - "1. Clarify the problem Are we building a digital or physical product?- We are offering it as an application on mobile. Are we building a complete new product or as a new feature for existing airline booking apps (Goibibo/Makemytrip, etc.)? - New feature for existing booking apps. We can consider Goibibo as an example. What do you mean by improving experience?- Reduce wait times or optimize the time spent. What is the goal? Engagement or Revenue? - Engagement. Which is t"See full answer

Aditya S. - "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"See full answer

Hari priya K. - "Are we talking about Uber app? or generic app? if it is a Uber app, I will proceed further. Uber is a platform where a rider can book a ride from the Uber app. The rider puts their current location or location where they want to take ride from and enters destination address. The Uber app searches for appropriate driver ( based on distance and vehicle) and assigns a driver to the rider. After finishing the ride, the rider and driver were asked to rate each other and on the ride quality . This"See full answer

Maggie S. - "I would structure my answer to this question by considering: Clarifying Questions Landscape Options for Growth Prioritization Risks & Considerations Clarifying Questions Are we talking about Uber’s ride sharing service, Uber Eats, or both? -- assume Uber rides Do we care about total users who have ever used the platform, or total users per day/time period? -- assume ever How many resources do we have to acquire resources? -- assume have a budget larger than the curre"See full answer

Rahul .. - "''' Problem Statement: Design a truck tracking system that supports filtering by truck number and includes an interface for updating driver status. Requirements: TruckTrackingSystem: registertruck(truckid, driver_name): Register a new truck with its driver updatelocation(truckid, latitude, longitude, timestamp): Update truck's GPS location getlocation(truckid): Get current location of a truck getlocationhistory(truckid, starttime, end_time): Get locat"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A situation where I used creative / innovative thinking to eliminate frustration with a product was while I was working on Point of Sale and Polaris for Retail Design System for Shopify. Upon seeing our vision for the future of this design system, it lacked a lot of the visual polish and necessary components that would make the product much more competitive in the market - this included having a lack of an interaction model for what is tappable vs. not tappable as well as containmen"See full answer

onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer

Suraj - "UberPool Product built for Uber Uber is a network of drivers & riders that allow to transport riders from A to B UberPool UberPool product solves for 2-3 riders to take a trip to a destination that works for everyone. It helps with reduced cost for riders, reduced emissions, make it faster to reach destination during high traffic hours makes it harder to find a ride --> until you find users willing to go to same destination "See full answer

Ramesh Y. - "Clarification - is it Uber that is building the feature? Answer: Yes Assuming if Uber is the one building this feature, I would start with if and how does the feature help Uber's mission and north star metrics. Uber's mission is to provide reliable transportation around the world and the primary metric that i can think on a high level is Number of rides , Number of drivers and from business revenue perspective revenue per ride, revenue per rider and driver. I picked revenue per ride because it"See full answer