Uber Career Prep: Software Engineering Fellowship Program

Uber Career Prep (UCP) is an unpaid fellowship for undergraduate engineering students that brings transparency and raises visibility around the necessary steps to embark on a STEM career to traditionally underrepresented groups in tech.

Regardless of your gender, race, religion, abilities, or sexual orientation, we champion your right to learn and succeed without fear. Let's move the world forward together.

Program Overview

5 Workshops

Hosted by Uber staff and will cover both soft and technical skills including: engineering competencies, communications, negotiations, and technical instructions.

Mentorship

Get 1x1 mentorship from an Uber Software Engineer who will help you through goal setting, technical clarification, and homework and mock interview feedback.

Mock Interviews

Technical mock interviews and live feedback from Uber Software Engineers are included as part of each workshop.

Technical Practice

Take-home assignments are based on technical instructions from each workshop and will help prepare you for your internship interviews.

Eligibility Criteria

Community Impact
Demonstrate a commitment to Uber Career Prep's mission to raise transparency around the steps necessary for embarking on a stem career for traditionally underrepresented groups in tech.
Major
1st and 2nd year students pursuing a 4-year, undergraduate degree with a concentration or major in computer science or another closely related field.

In the United States and Canada, community college students that are committed to pursuing a 4-year, undergraduate degree once they complete their community college program are welcome to apply.

In EMEA Codam participants are welcome to apply.
Location
Uber Career Prep is a global program that operates in the locations listed below:

APAC Program: Launching in India in 2025

EMEA Program: Open to students studying in the Netherlands or who hold an EU passport

LATAM & NAMER Program: Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States

All qualified applicants without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age or disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Alumni Spotlight

Meet Tenzin

This is Tenzin, a full-time Uber Software Engineer who got his start at Uber through Career Prep. Together, Tenzin and Uber are moving the world forward.

Uber Engineering was first to say yes to Nouru

While attending community college, Nouru Muneza received what felt like his 200th rejection email for an engineering internship. He was living in a hacker house at the time—far away from his childhood home in Rwanda. In 2018, Nouru attended a career fair in San Francisco where he met a Recruiter from Career Prep and began a 3 year journey to becoming an Uber Software Engineer.

Meet Nouru

Our history. Your future.

In 2017, The Hidden Genius Project partnered with Uber to launch Uber Career Prep, a first-of-its-kind career prep program for college engineering students. The goal was to develop a scalable approach for mentoring and preparing young men of color to thrive in technology careers. With the guidance of Uber engineers, the program provided aspiring computer science majors the opportunity to learn in-person at Uber HQ, technical interview skills, communication, self-marketing skills, and insights into how top engineers succeed. In 2018, 16 Black male college students from around the nation joined the inaugural cohort and completed the program.

Uber Career Prep now hosts cohorts of 50 Fellows virtually, from all over the world, and is open to students regardless of their gender, race, religion, abilities, or sexual orientation.

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