It is just like everyone else said. They will send you a takehome test involving two exercises: one is a coding exercise and one is about optimizing passenger pick up. The coding exercise was very simple, which makes me believe that at uber data scientists have nothing to do with production code. The pick up exercise was open ended and Uber was also very vague in terms of how detailed the answer should have been, how much time I should have spent on it, etc.
I failed that so I didn't go to the following round. My main complaint is that when they send you a takehome test they should set expectations clearly on whether they just want to see how you would tackle the problem or they want a detailed 10 page report!
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Related to passenger pick up time. After the interview, I found out that the collection of data science takehome challenges book has a similar challenge about optimizing shuttle bus stops. I wish I had known it before.
gave written test then got selected to 1 hr interview but not selected gave my solved solved all the problems due to immigration and visa got not selected.
But interview was pretty much good tested on sql, python, pandas, production ml models
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Uber (San Jose, CA) en may 2026
Entrevista
My interview started with a stats coding round where I was asked to code for expected value for a problem and the second interview was a case study which was quite easy
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Expected value for a dice problem and a case study about a Uber problem
The process was smooth and well organized. A recruiter initially reached out, followed by a first round consisting of two interviews—one with the team manager and another with a data scientist, both engaging and informative.