45 min on Teams they went through my resume and wanted to know about a REST API I built and leadership questions too, felt casual but took over a month to hear back
Questions Asked
1.“How do you deal with missing data? What are the trade-offs of different approaches?”
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2025No Offer
Concordia University · Computer Science
2nd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 2 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalUnexpected Questions
Networked with the school team beforehand which I think helped a lot, first round was with two engineers who went into system design and walked through some coding problems. Superday was five interviews one after another and by the fourth one I was just running on autopilot. They care a lot about personality, every single person asked why Lyft and they kept digging into the cultural fit stuff
Questions Asked
1.“Flatten a nested list into a flat list recursively”
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Fall 2024No Offer
University of Florida · Computer Science
2nd year · 2.1-2.4 GPA · 0 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalUnexpected Questions
Email questionnaire first then Byteboard thing in two parts. Read a design doc and left technical comments, then implemented something from scratch. Got stuck on implementation because the constraints were unusual
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time you drove a significant architectural improvement in a codebase”
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2025Accepted
University of Michigan · Computer Science
3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 2 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalVirtual
Byteboard is completely different from LC prep. You review a technical document and write inline comments, then implement code from scratch. Rewards engineering judgment over memorization. About 28 days start to finish
Questions Asked
1.“Find the maximum area of a rectangle in a histogram”