I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2019
Interview
The recruiter reached out to me and we scheduled a technical phone call. In the interview, we gave our introductions. I mentioned I have 7 years of exp. The interviewer asked a good technical question. The question verified if the candidate can gather requirements, solve problem and code it. I finished it in time. He asked a follow up question, I struggled there bit and time was over so we stopped it there. I went through with this interview but they wanted to be sure so they scheduled another technical phone screen. In this interview, interviewer asked in depth about my current experience, project details etc. He asked me the difference between an array and a linked list. I fumbled there for a bit since I was not expecting a theoretical question for 7 years of experience! Anyway, I could answer it well. Then the interviewer asked a technical question based on graphs. I told him that I have never worked in graphs in my career so I started solving the problem without graphs and I almost reached solution when he asked me to solve it only using graphs. I told him again that I am not very familiar with all graph concepts and needed to brush up my knowledge. Then he explained me the solution and we kept the call.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
There are astroids with certain mass moving in space in left/right directions. To the very far is a space station. Write a program to return the number of astroids that can collide the space station. The astroids collide with each other and the astroid with bigger mass destroys the astroid with lower mass and goes ahead in its direction.
Follow up on above question: Use method written in above question and assume that you also have space station on far left. Now you have to return astroids colliding with both right and left space station. How can you do that?
Alice has a set of buckets of various sizes, and an unlimited water supply. Her task is to measure an exact amount of water in one of the buckets.
Buckets are unmarked and she only knows their full capacity, which is always an integer e.g. 5 gallons.
Alice is allowed the following operations:
1. Fully fill a bucket.
2. Empty a bucket.
3. Pour bucket into another, up until the other bucket's capacity.
Note that Alice doesn't know how to measure water in any other way, e.g. she can't pour 1/2 of a bucket into another because her measurement would be inaccurate.
Example: buckets have capacity 3 and 5. Alice is asked to measure 4.
Let's denote buckets' contents by a tuple (a, b) where 0 <= a <= 3 and 0 <= b <= 5.
We start with (0, 0) and can follow these steps:
1. Fill up the big bucket (0, 5)
2. Pour to the smaller one (3, 2)
3. Empty the small one (0, 2)
4. Pour water from big to small (2, 0)
5. Fill up the big one (2, 5)
6. Pour water from big to small (3, 4)
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Your task is to help Alice determine the shortest sequence of steps that gets desired capacity.
Here she took 6 steps to get to 4 gallons of water.
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.
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.
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.
