Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Uber with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
Started out with a conversation with the recruiter, who then sent out a take-home test to be returned in a week. The test wasn't too hard, one question tested SQL ability, another tested product sense (what metrics would you consider, etc) and the third involved building a predictive model (any programming language accepted). The follow-up was then a conversation about the role with the data science lead, along with some simple product sense questions. If this goes well, you're invited for an on-site with 5/6 members of your team. Impress them and then congratulations, the offer is yours!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What metrics would you use to track whether Uber's strategy of using paid advertising to acquire customers works? How would you then figure out an acceptable cost of customer acquisition?
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Uber in Jul 2015
Interview
I got contacted by the HR a month after I applied. The woman I was in contact with (by mail) was nice and easy going.
A first interview was scheduled. She didn't call me and didn't even contact me afterwards. I sent a mail to know what had happened, she told me she "was having an issue, as the number is international" (I'm French and live in France). We planned another interview and same thing happened. She sent me a mail to ask me if I could call.
I was surprised a company like Uber had issues calling an international number, that's the first time it happens to me, but well, I called with my cellphone so we could start the interview. We started with classic things about my current position and my background. Then, she asked me if I would need a working visa (H1B), I said yes and she told me that it wouldn't be possible right now as they can ask for a visa only in april next year. Then she told me that she would keep my CV and stay in touch with me later on.
Overall I was quite frustrated with the process. I expected Uber to be more professional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about my background, what I am doing during my Ph.D.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter. After the normal recruiter phone screen around background, fit, etc, he sent a data challenge given 2 days to complete. It has two part, sql part and a series of open end questions with a sample dataset. It was not very difficult. Sent it back to the recruiter, a week later was informed to have a phone interview with the hiring manager.
The phone screen was firstly around background, the team and then two cases study that uber had or may have in real life. Pretty open ended as well, no need to stress. I think it went really well, especially got really positive feedback from HM directly in the middle of it. So after two weeks, I was really surprised to get a rejection email from the recruiter.
The recruiter was not very responsive, and it would be really helpful to get some genuine feedbacks.