I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Lyft
Interview
They were great when it came to first contact and initial screening. I passed the first technical which was a phone screen and was asked to complete a "HW" assignment where you need to submit a small but lengthy Xcode project. I'm a seasoned developer and nailed the assignment. They got back to me about a week later with a vague rejection letter. I wasn't sure if they just found someone else or wasn't satisfied with my solution.
While they did get back to me with a yes/no response, all other emails with questions regarding the company or the assignment went unanswered. I thought this was extremely unprofessional (they even state to send the emails with any questions) and made me wonder if they have it together. After you invest such hours on their "HW" the least they can do is spend 5 minutes out of their day to answer any questions or concerns you have.
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Was surprised they made me do a "HW" assignment. Whenever companies make me do this I wonder if they're just lazy and/or aren't sure of the implementation themselves. Either way the assignment was fun so I proceeded anyways
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2019
Interview
recruiter phone call that lasted about thirty minutes, went over experience, standard stuff.
technical google meet that lasted about an hour with an iOS engineer. in the google meeting interview i was sent over a sample Xcode project, and shared animated gifs of what he wanted me to build. It was pretty straightforward, like adding colored squares to the view and counting them.
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iOS sample project to put colored squares on the view.
I applied online. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
Chatting with HR, one hour funny Skype interview with iOS developer, couple one hour Skype iOS coding interview, one hour architecture interview without coding and one hour Skype iOS knowledge interview.
Had a long technical phone interview that went pretty well. Then they wanted me to do an assignment. I spend half a day building an app according to the spec they sent me and waited for some feedback.
They sent me an email they narrowed down their search and will not be moving forward. We've been in contact for a few months before I decided to take the assignment, so they weren't in a rush to hire somebody immediately. I asked for some feedback on my assignment, just to understand how to improve myself and never heard back from them. RUDE.
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Asked to design a game app on the phone. Was actually pretty interesting.
