Uber | SWE | Apr [Fail]

Technical Phone Screen

1. Question similar to the Number of Islands problem from Leetcode but adding bridges in between of the island and finding the path with minimum number of islands crossed. Note that some islands may have bridges between themselves (for example an U shaped island with a bridge in between). In that case we only cross one island.

   <details> <summary>For example</summary> 0 water, 1 land and 2 a bridge, find the path with less islands crossed from upper right corner lower right corner

   1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 2,0,1,0,0,0,0,2,0 1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1 0,0,2,0,0,0,0,1,1 0,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1 0,0,0,0,1,2,2,1,1

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Onsite Interview (5 rounds)

Round 1: Engineering Manager

Round 2: (Whiteboard session)

1. Word Search II from Leetcode

Round 3: (Architecture Interview)

1. Design a system to check the status (ping) of a website. Similar to Status.io. Big deal was how to schedule all the tasks every x seconds.

Round 4: (Coding Interview)

1. Cherry pickup from Leetcode. Not sure why they ask this question after having asked me a similar question on Round 2. The issue in this problem is that there is a specific test case that shows you how you have to do it. If you don't check that very specific case, you will screw this up.... Totally unnecessary question: easy if you have seen it before, very difficult to do it in a blackboard if you have never seen it.

Round 5 (Cultural and behavioral interview):

1. Questions on conflicts within team and outside team. Strengths and Weakness.