I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Uber (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
PLEASE DO NOT INTERVIEW HERE! THEY JUST WANT TO STEAL YOUR IDEAS. The process itself is long and lengthy and not worth it - There are better companies out there that care about employees not UBER. #DELETEUBER
A sourcer/recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn, followed by a phone interview. After a week long silence, I got the "HOMEWORK" assignment. PLEASE DO NOT FALL IN THIS TRAP. This assignment took a week to complete and they expect you to write a full PRD along with interactive wireframes. The whole purpose is to take your ideas and some junior level employee will go implement it. After again a week long silence they have a JAM session to "brainstorm" aka steal ideas further. PMs I met at the JAM session had not even done their due diligence on the problem at hand and definitely were very junior in their thinking. After the JAM session there was two weeks silence again. Then had an onsite with 6 interviewers - most of them again junior and do not understand in depth what problem they are solving here even after working there. All the conversations are geared towards what the solution is and what the wireframes are. It was very clear from the entire process and like the other person said on Glassdoor they are here to waste your time and steal your ideas.
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Question 1
1. home work assignment
2. jam
3. 6 person onsite interview
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Uber (Cambridge, MA) in Sep 2016
Interview
Rather rude - took 3 months to get back to me with a hard no and zero feedback. I was surprised that they were so quiet for so long. But then again, that is what the tech sector is like I guess
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Uber
Interview
They reached out to me (I was a passive candidate). At an informal meeting with a lead product manager they were very enthusiastic, so I agreed to complete a homework assignment. The homework assignment asked me to break apart the feature I'd be managing; specifically, drilling into metrics, developing a roadmap and spec'ing out a feature. They said "we love whiteboarding and brainstorming here".
I spent about 2 hours on the homework to demonstrate my work, assuming they'd understand it was rough around the edges and that we'd work through details in the interview. Instead, I was surprised to get a direct, rude reply saying I had great ideas, but that my homework lacked details.
My experience was very disappointing. The instructions for the assignment were not clear - I was told it was a brainstorming exercise, but it turns out they wanted a full PRD. Moreover, I find it unreasonable to expect a candidate to do 4+ hours of work before a first interview - especially a passive candidate. My takeaway was that they were much more interested in formality and process than creativity and vision. Not the culture for me!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the feature you'd be working on. (1) What metrics would you drill into? (2) Develop a roadmap. (3) Spec out a feature.