Uber
Ride-hailing and delivery platform with massive real-time data challenges.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the backend architecture for Uber Eats, focusing specifically on the order state machine and how to handle real-time updates to the customer, restaurant, and courier.
#Microservices
#WebSockets
#State Machines
#Event-Driven Architecture
#Pub/Sub
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a geospatial index to quickly find the nearest available Uber drivers for a rider requesting a trip in a high-density city like New York.
#QuadTrees
#Geohashing
#Spatial Databases
#Scalability
#Redis
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design Uber's dynamic pricing (surge pricing) system. How would you handle the data ingestion of millions of location pings and calculate the surge multiplier in real-time?
#Stream Processing
#Kafka
#Apache Flink
#Distributed Caching
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed logging and monitoring system for Uber's microservices that can ingest millions of logs per second and provide real-time alerting.
#Elasticsearch
#Kafka
#Log Aggregation
#Observability
#Data Pipelines
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