Lyft Interview Experiences

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.

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.

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.

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.