RejectedTechnical Screen

Building a Directory Tree and Traversing It with a Manual Stack

UberSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

The interview lasted 45 minutes. We first went through my resume. I was asked about my most challenging project and the technology stack I normally use, and the interviewer introduced the work of the hiring group. The remaining half hour was for coding. Given a series of file paths, I needed to build a directory tree and find the full path of a file in that tree. Directory names could repeat, but…

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