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A Tournament-Ranking Question and the Interviewer's Wrong Hints

UberSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

The interviewer's tone was very friendly. For the second question though, I think it's genuinely hard to come up with if you haven't seen something like it before — the corner cases are rough. I went through about six months of interview experience posts and didn't see this question anywhere. It's not even in the LeetCode Uber tag. The problem: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] represents ranks, where a s…

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