Lyft Software Engineer(Internship) Interview Questions

Fill application (include essays). Round 1: 2+ hours online assessment, tech questions and coding challenges. Round 2: DSA coding challenge with a SWE. Round 3 and final: Expertise coding challenge (FE, BE, etc) with a SWE. Was excited at first when I saw the process was realistic, but then, at the very end of the interview process, in my opinion, the challenge is just not realistic. It's sad that people that do well during the online assessment, and DSA assessment, are then given these unrealistic challenges that no one would do at a real SWE work in the first place, and that probably only people that memorized it would resolve.

Applied online and got an online assessment and Interviews, The interview was doing another thing and did not care about the interview at all. I was asking question and clearly he was not listening

Multiple rounds. Did the university onsite interview round: they gave us a mini project type prompt. Even though I coded it completely and it was working, still didn't get offer.

Contact by email and write a little bit about yourself. I can't say much because of nda agreement But the process was one project, next phase was an interview, then something they called laptop challenge

Interviewer was casual and easy going . I solved the question but I made some stellar typos which made my code break in some test cases. Didn’t have time to fix them

First I got some questions in email, regarding my availability and skills, then I had a video-call screening interview, It was mainly focused on my own background and some scientific questions.

Byteboard interview meant to simulate what you would be doing in the workforce. I thought that it was a good idea in theory, but horribly executed. I thought the editor/interface was hard to navigate, instructions not always clear and the time limit of 70 minutes was too strict. They give you three tasks and Lyft even acknowledges that most people don' t finish all the tasks. Well if most people dont' finish the tasks, isn't it common sense to give people more time? Overall good idea, poor execution.

Coding assessment was on a project with the implementation of the neighborhood restaurant finder. The application has a lot of classes with and the task was to implement some of the methods for the application using object-oriented programming techniques by using already implemented classes and their methods.

I got a call and at the same time, I had to code and talk through the code for the problem I was given. I was unfamiliar with how to solve the problem but I did it to the best of my ability without using dynamic features such as vectors. I answered the question and talked through my thought process so I don't know exactly what they want from a college student without any experience. If I was that good I wouldn't need a job with lyft now would I was my afterthought when the call ended and I got the rejection letter

I applied online in early September and interviewed for the Level 5 internship, which I failed and was moved on to interview for the main team. Overall the process was quick besides when it took 3 weeks to hear back after my mock interview. The recruiters give feedback after your interviews if you ask. I feel as though my interviewers were more interested in me walking in and knowing the solution as opposed to me coming up with a solution from scratch. I say this because although for both interviews I cam up with the solution myself and wrote runnable code, after explaining my solution and went over examples with my code after I was done writing it up, my interviewers had feedback like "is slow in solving problems and should practice more on cs fundamentals". This confused me because the interviews have all been focused on you brainstorming solutions for the first few minutes until you arrive at the optimal solution and then after the optimal solution is found, you code up the solution and walk through it with examples, which I did. I just feel like they want memorized solutions and don't care how you get there. My two cents.