I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Freenow by Lyft in Jul 2018
Interview
I applied online threw their careers portal, an HR agent contacted me after 2 days to schedule an Skype introductory interview with an IT recruiter. The video interview was about 30 minutes, mainly involved sharing my experience and previous work and 1 or 2 easy technical questions, then we had a discussion about the role.
The next step was a take home test which, as the they describe, may take 2 hours, and that is not very true, but they gave me a week to finish. I finished the test 1 day before the due date and submitted it to them and I receive immediately a response thanking me for submitting the result and they will come back to me within 2 week.
What actually happened that the sent me a thank you and you are rejected email the next working day. They even refused to specify any reason for rejecting me, the HR really said that `we cannot give out any more information regarding your results due to legal restrictions as well as capacity reasons`, and asked me to understand their situation.
I hope they improve this disappointing process and to respect candidates more as they put hours of hard work to finish tests. They I deserve to know what is wrong and why they're not selected. Otherwise it's a wasted time for each other time.
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Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I interviewed at Freenow by Lyft (Berlin) in May 2021
Interview
There are 4 rounds total for the interview
1) Interview with the Product owner
2)Solving Home -assignment(7 days of work)
3) Review and discussion (Technical discussion on Assignment and technical questions)
4)HR round
Cons:
Even after clearing all the rounds they suggest you a salary less than your current salary .(for instance if your current salary is 70k they will come with an offer of 63k after clearing all the rounds).
Its sure a waste of time
After clearing all the rounds The HR will come up with something like, you are in upper intermediate level and we cant pay you.
Dont recommended to waste your time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
build an application based on car and driver using crud operation
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Freenow by Lyft (Hamburg) in Nov 2017
Interview
First HR recruiter called for a telephonic discussion and was eager to sign you up for a programming assignment.
They sent me over a programming assignment - a web service in Spring Boot which recruiter said is a 2 -3 hour task but in fact nobody can complete that in that time frame . It would take a minimum of 2 hours for 4 - 5 days and they gave around a week's time to submit it. They had given four tasks there.
When I submitted , they sent an email thanking for submission and after few hours they sent another email saying thanks for applying and rejection.
They should basically improve their process and tell applicants a bit about reason of rejection since candidates usually have to put few days of hard work to submit that assignment.
I am from India and opening was for Hamburg, Germany and HR had said about visa etc but I am not sure if they are simply fishing in market and getting projects from various candidates for their developers :) I had really submitted the assignment with pretty good standard because that is what I do day in day out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
## Task 1
* Write a new Controller for maintaining cars.
* Decide on your own how the methods should look like.
* Entity Car: Should have at least the following characteristics: license_plate, seat_count, convertible, rating, engine_type (electric, gas, ...)
* Entity Manufacturer: Decide on your own if you will use a new table or just a string column in the car table.
* Extend the DriverController to enable drivers to select a car they are driving with.
* Extend the DriverController to enable drivers to deselect a car.
* Extend the DriverDo to map the selected car to the driver.
## Task 2
First come first serve: A car can be selected by exactly one ONLINE Driver. If a second driver tries to select a already used car you should throw a CarAlreadyInUseException.
## Task 3
Make use of the filter pattern to implement an endpoint in the DriverController to get a list of drivers with specific characteristics. Reuse the characteristics you implemented in task 1.
## Task 4
Security: secure the API. It's up to you how you are going to implement the security.
