Why is there a hiring challenge inside Uber app?

Manish Kumar
Don't Panic, Just Hire
2 min readDec 16, 2016

I was going through the Uber android app’s content and found this:

Why would they ship ‘hiring_coding_challenge_question_2_code.html’ with every apk?

For those curious, here is what the ‘hiring_coding_challenge_text_logo.txt’ looks like. Why is it ‘acid’ ‘burn’ written there? Maybe generated using some library. Whats the ‘zerocool’ at the bottom

The Logo

And the ‘hiring_coding_challeng_prize.txt’ looks like this:

The Prize

Below is the Question Text, after I loaded it in a browser:

Code 1

It looks like as if it doing some sort of Quicksort. Isn’t it?

Another code was, what the heck is it doing?:

Code 2

Whatever the codes are doing, I don’t care. I am curious about why they are shipping these things with the apk to millions of people?

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