Uber Data Engineer Interview Questions
17+ Uber Data Engineer interview questions drawn from real candidate reports. Sources include 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode. Questions span every stage of the Uber Data Engineer loop: OA, phone screen, system design, behavioral, and onsite coding.
What to Expect in the Uber Data Engineer Interview
The Uber Data Engineer interview process typically runs 4 to 6 rounds depending on seniority level. Based on candidate reports in the LeakCode database, the loop usually includes a resume review, an online assessment or coding phone screen, one or more technical rounds, a system design round (for senior and above), and a behavioral or values round.
Difficulty skews toward medium and hard LeetCode-style problems in the coding rounds. System design questions test breadth (component selection, scaling, trade-off reasoning) more than deep implementation. Behavioral questions are tied to the company's stated values and principles.
Uber Data Engineer Questions (Sample)
Uber | System Design Round | L5
Recently went through a system design round at Uber where the prompt was: "Design a distributed message broker similar to Apache Kafka." The requirements focused on topic-based pub/sub, partitioned or
Uber Data Engineer - SDE 2 role
I took the interview in Jan 2024; so i know this is late and I apologize. Round 1 was just a screening round; asked about compensation, location Round 2) Techinical Screen ->...
Walmart | Software Engineer 3 | Bengaluru | Offer
Education: B.Tech in Computer Science from an old NIT Work Experience: SDE 2 at an investment bank (2.5 years of experience at the time of the interview) I applied to Walmart through...
AppFolio | SDE/DE Internship | USA | Feb 2024 | Reject
Education : Pursuing MS CS at a top public University Prior Work Experince : 3 years at Fortune 500 (India) TC: $48/Hr Rounds: 1. Initial Recruiter Screening 2. Technical Interviews - 2 Technical Round 1...
Uber L4 | SDE 2 [ Data Engineer ] | Hyderabad | April 2024
Company: Uber Level: L4 Position: SDE 2 [Data Engineer] Preliminary Round: https://leetcode.com/problems/move-zeroes/description/ SQL questions on Manager & Employee tables Basic questions on Spark , Data skewness, Data partitioning etc.., Round 1: SQL...
Kotak SDE-1 Interview Experience
I recently had interview with Kotak Mahindra Bank for SDE-1 position. In total 3 rounds took place. BarRaiser Round(1.5hr): This round was divided into 3 parts: LLD, DSA and Distributed Systems 1. Distributed...
Uber SDE II Interview Experience | Banglore | Reject
Hey everyone. I applied to a sde 2 opening in Uber banglore location in ~April. In May, got an email from recruiter. Here is the procedure: ### Code Signal: Received a link for code...
Zepto SE3 LLDRound1(InterviewVector)
You are tasked with designing the backend for a ride-booking service similar to Uber or Lyft. The service should allow users to request rides, drivers to accept ride requests, and...
Design Stock price Notification System
Design a system in which user is subscribing to some stocks from list of stocks. User will set some rules on basis of which if the rules are broken we...
Uber Hiring Drive | SDE2 | Bangalore
I attended onsite interview last weekend. OA: Gave 3 weeks Back. 4 qstns/ 70 mins. Solved 3 + 1 partially. 556/600 after normalization. Got an invite for onsite event. All the...
Uber Interview Experience for SDE-1 | Off-Campus 2021
Uber started an off-campus drive in the first week of June. I got a referral through a college pass-out. After a week, I got the test link for the online coding round.Onli...
Uber | Staff Data Engineer | Phone Interview | NYC, USA | May 2023
I got 1 coding question: Task: Check if string follows order of characters defined by a pattern Example1 Inputstring = "engineers rock" pattern = "er"; Output: true Example2 Inputstring = "engineers rock" pattern = "gsr"; Output: false
Onehouse | Software Engineer | Remote [Offer]
Interview Process - Introductory Round \tThey guage the interest of the candidate in their product and passion for it. - DS and Algo Round \tDesign LRU and LFU cache. - Low Level Design Round \tDesign...
Cint SDE2 Experience | Selected
I gave my 1st round of CINT SDE2 in month of June. 1st Round It was a discussion round where interviewer asked me more on the past projects, system design of the...
Uber | Data Engineer | Phone Screen | CodeSignal | Machine Coding | Queue design
This was for the data engineer 2 position at Uber,Bangalore. It was a 90 min Zoom call, with a single machine coding question: Design an In-Memory Pull Based Queue Library: Use Cases to...
Difficulty Breakdown
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easy
2
medium
2
hard
Based on 17 questions with difficulty labels from candidate reports.
Interview Rounds
Here is how the Uber Data Engineer questions in the LeakCode database break down by interview round, based on what candidates reported:
| Round | Questions in Database |
|---|---|
| system design | 7 |
| recruiter | 4 |
| phone screen | 4 |
| technical | 1 |
| oa | 1 |
Most Common Topics
Question Recency
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2026
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2025
8
2024
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2023
Question counts by interview year, based on candidate-reported dates.
How to Prepare for the Uber Data Engineer Interview
Use the LeakCode question database as your primary research tool. Filter by role (Data Engineer), then by round type to focus your prep on the specific stages in your upcoming loop. Sort by recency to see what 2026 candidates actually faced.
- Start with questions from the last 12 months. Interview processes change and recent data is the strongest signal.
- Cross-reference questions that appear in multiple sources (1p3a, Blind, Glassdoor). Multi-source confirmation means a question has stronger recurrence probability.
- For system design rounds: focus on the question patterns, not individual questions. The same design principles recur across many prompts.
- For behavioral rounds: map your experiences to the company's stated values before the interview. Most behavioral questions at top companies are derivatives of a small set of core leadership competencies.
FAQ
How many Uber Data Engineer questions are in the database?
17+ questions from verified candidate reports. The count grows as new reports are scraped daily from 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode.
Are these questions from real Uber interviews?
Yes. All questions are sourced from actual candidate interview reports, not generated by AI. Each entry links back to its source URL where available, and questions are tagged with the year and round reported by the candidate.
How current is this data?
LeakCode updates daily. The database is filtered to exclude duplicate and low-quality entries. You can filter by interview year to focus on recent cycles.
Does LeakCode cover Uber OA questions specifically?
Yes. The database includes online assessment questions tagged with round type. See the Uber OA page for a dedicated view.
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