Uberstar

Like the title says, I had an interview today for the UberSTAR Internship, and I just wanted to share my experience for anyone else who applied, as I couldn't find many accounts of the process when I looked through the subreddit a couple of weeks ago. Also, shoutout to u/Motaphe for giving me a heads up about the interview process ahead of time. Background I am currently a sophomore at the University of Maryland, studying Computer Engineering. I applied for the internship on August 28th and I heard back from my recruiter on August 31st. My interview was initially scheduled on September 16, but to "unforeseen circumstances", it ended up being pushed back to today, September 28. Interview Process The interview started off with introductions and a brief interview resume screen. I introduces myself (major, interests, etc.) then answered a couple of questions about my resume (robotics team, volunteer work, etc.) then we went directly into the coding assignment. The assignment itself was pretty simple, akin to a LeetCode easy-ish medium. Specifically, it focused on string manipulation with a touch of DSA. My interviewer gave me a minute to think over the problem and gather my thoughts. I just voiced random ideas for the individual criteria until I had a rough plan on how I was going to implement it. After I told my interviewer my design, he said it sounded like it would work. I started my implementation while commenting each step of the algorithm, talking aloud the entire time I was working. I managed to implement a solution, which initially had a bug that I managed to fix, and ran some random test cases which worked until the very last test case. My interviewer managed to identify the bug, giving me a hint where I should look, but I couldn't manage to find and fix it before time ran out. After the coding section was a brief Q&A, with me asking him questions (why Uber, previous jobs, college major, advice for interns, etc.) and him answering my questions, though we went slightly over the 1 hour time slot. Results I recieved an email from my recruiter about an hour and a half after my interview, letting me know that I moved onto the second interview.