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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 18, 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied in-person. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Lyft treated me and my co-workers in a completely unethical and evil manner. Their recruiting approached us via M&A for a talent acquisition and attempted to poach employees by providing misleading / no feedback to founders. I've been interviewed on-site and never received any feedback and each contact at Lyft refused to talk to founders while their HR invited and interviewed one of our employees and extended an individual offer, even though clearly the context was set for a team-hire where they've told us everybody would be interviewed. My on-site interview felt like Lyft is interviewing a million people and doing everything wrong. All rooms were booked for interviews (including mine which was fixed by HR). One of the interviewers did not show up, turns out he didn't even come to the office that day. My programming test was one of the worst I've seen in a decent while. If you've spent time reading their description of the "programming test" they send before the interview, you've just wasted your time. They gave me a classic trie related question you'd have seen a few times easily if you practiced on leetcode or even interviewed with enough companies(many ask it as a systems design question). The question included a top coder style input & output which made zero sense given question context. TC style is to hint for optimizations, whoever prepared the question probably had no clue. Overall, a waste of time and a lot of shame we will definitely remember and share with others. We've still never received any response from any Lyft contacts (interviewers, HR, M&A) even though we reached out numerous times and it's been over 2 months.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Leetcode medium/hard level algorithms / data structure questions.
      Answer question
      6

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 9, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Lyft

      Interview

      Jumping into the technical phone screen, I was pleasantly surprised when the interviewer asked me to design a driver-rider matching service, something I had just practiced in-depth on PracHub. The prep I did really paid off, as I navigated the complexities of indexing live driver locations and addressing high write rates with confidence. The full virtual onsite included two coding rounds and a system design question, along with behavioral interviews. While I appreciated the opportunity, I ultimately declined the offer for different reasons unrelated to the team. The overall experience was intense but rewarding.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 4, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ciudad de Mexico
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Lyft (Ciudad de Mexico) in May 2026

      Interview

      Solo llegue al challenge que es leet code hard de los mas comunes es una ventana de desplazamiento esta protectorado con un humano. El screening es bastante especifico y se hace con recruiter validan ingles y que des ejemplos de proyectos de sistemas distribuidos en tu haber. El problema con los leetcode es que dejan de lado a los candidatos neurodivergentes que piensan en profundidad.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      leet code de Minimum window substring
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 4, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in May 2026

      Interview

      the process is pretty straightforward. first recruiter screen, tech screen, and then onsite (system design, behavioral, and laptop). you may or may not meet the manager of the team you are interviewing for during the onsite behavioral. the laptop round is basically OOD.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      tech screen is leetcode specific, system design is OOD related, and behavioral has bunch of questions instead of talking about one specific projects.
      Answer question