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Anonymous Interview Candidate in San Francisco, CA

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I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA)

Interview

Thorough with a focus on virtues as part of the interview. Met with 4 different panels: three functional and one for core values type questions. The customer obsession came through as important for the company and the interviews. Everyone I met with was highly intelligent.

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  • Describe a program you built that was Member first?
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Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA

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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA)

Interview

Initial recruiter call, take home assignment, and then panel interviews that included a live scheduling activity, and a few 1:1s with various potential stakeholders that focused on partnerships, customer experience, and problem solving.

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  • - How do you manage a difficult partnership? - "Tell me about a time when" - How would go go about fixing x mistake?
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I work at Lyft and this is the second hiring freeze in 6 months. I was in the process of interviewing for a Internal position and now the process is paused. It’s not looking too good. Can anyone refer me to Microsoft, Slack, Salesforce, Accenture and Amazon? Basically any where at this point.

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I interviewed at Lyft (Marne-la-Vallee)

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Excellent. A very structured process with great feedback. Multiple round of interviews, testing different areas of expertise, 2 hours each round. Case studies are related to the market and industry practices.

Interview Questions
  • Product design, P&L, Metrics, Dashboard and Success evaluation.
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Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA

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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA)

Interview

People are really nice and accommodating and their great culture showed in the interview process. I even though people complain about Lyft, it’s still a great company to work for.

Interview Questions
  • Tell me about a time how you managed a task (related to your role)
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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I interviewed at Lyft

Interview

Typical interview process, consisting of phone calls, video interviews over zoom, and talking with team members and panels. Nothing memorable or special about it that I can remember. just be prepared for basic questions for positions like this

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Anonymous Employee

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I interviewed at Lyft

Interview

30 min initial interview with recruiter, 30 min with hiring manager, and group presentation plus interview with team mates and one member of cross functional team. Everyone is friendly and curious to learn more about you.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Neutral Experience
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I interviewed at Lyft

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A round of Byteboard online assessment, which includes document design (ask you to leave comments and answer some questions) and an open ended code implementations. Rejected after this round of byteboard

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  • To make a choice between different data structures / system implementation
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Anonymous Employee

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I interviewed at Lyft

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Average difficulty, also included take home test. There were 3 round of interviews that included a presentation of take home test. Everyone was friendly and answered all questions I had

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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Lyft in Oct 2023

Interview

I got a referal and received an email from the recruiter on the same day, we then scheduled a phone call meeting, the meeting lasted about 30 minutes and the recruiter was very nice.

Interview Questions
  • Why did you choose Lyft? Your project-related experience. You cross-functional experience
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Very lengthy but it was alright. Pretty standard for a tech role and I did not have to do an assignment which I appreciated as those can be quite lengthy.

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Lyft Interviews FAQs

Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Lyft as 63.8% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.84 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Operations Associate and Analytics Manager rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Firmware Engineer and Sales/Marketing roles were rated as the easiest.

The hiring process at Lyft takes an average of 20.28 days when considering 1,402 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Contractor had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Legal Attorney roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 120 days).

Common stages of the interview process at Lyft according to 1,402 Glassdoor interviews include:

Phone Interview: 28.47%

One on One Interview: 20.96%

Group Panel Interview: 12.68%

Presentation: 12.07%

Background Check: 8.03%

Skills Test: 6.34%

Drug Test: 5.51%

Other: 2.55%

IQ Intelligence Test: 2.09%

Personality Test: 1.29%

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Confused. Currently working for a mid sized firm with big clients but have been offered a role through my network for a relatively small startup but a with higher designation / lead role & similar salary to my existing pay. The new role is more strategy + lead but non technical while my current role is managerial level but more technical. If in my position, would you stay in your current role or take the new one?? Happy to answer follow up questions. Thank you.

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