Uber
Ride-hailing and delivery platform with massive real-time data challenges.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of driver locations represented by [x, y] coordinates and a rider's location, find the k closest drivers to the rider.
#Heaps
#QuickSelect
#Geometry
#Sorting
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Design and implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache. It should support get and put operations in O(1) time complexity.
#Hash Map
#Doubly Linked List
#Data Structures
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
You are given a list of overlapping ride requests, where each request has a start time and end time. Write a function to merge all overlapping ride times and return the consolidated active driving periods.
#Arrays
#Sorting
#Intervals
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement a Rate Limiter. Given a user ID and a timestamp, return true if the request should be allowed, and false if it exceeds the limit of N requests per M seconds.
#Sliding Window
#Queues
#Concurrency
#Hash Map
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a grid representing a city map where 0 is a valid road, 1 is a traffic jam (impassable), and a start and end coordinate, find the shortest path for an Uber driver to reach the destination.
#BFS
#Shortest Path
#Graph Theory
#Matrices
Software Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given a list of bus routes where each route is a list of bus stops. Return the minimum number of buses you must take to travel from a source stop to a destination stop.
#BFS
#Graphs
#Hash Maps
Software Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement an autocomplete system for Uber's destination search. Given a list of historical destination strings and a search prefix, return the top 3 most frequently searched destinations matching the prefix.
#Trie
#Heaps
#String Manipulation
#Design
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