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UberMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

The phone screen format was 45 min coding + 15 min design. For coding I got the high-frequency "find robot" problem. I discussed the brute force solution with the interviewer, then how to precompute the distances in all four directions to speed it up, and finally wrote the optimized version. The interviewer didn't provide any test cases in HackerRank and didn't ask me to write any either. I only…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.