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      Software Engineer Interview

      8 Oct 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Lyft (New York, NY) in Jun 2018

      Interview

      Recruiter is very blunt and efficient. Was probably going down a checklist as he was speaking to me. Not personable, but that's fine. I had an initial phone screen on coderpad. The first interviewer was nice. I got a very simple problem, but I couldn't figure out how to compile the code on coderpad using the language of my choice. I advise to figure out how to use coderpad beforehand to avoid wasting time. Because of the time I wasted, couldn't get to the last part of the problem. They scheduled a second phone interview because of that. Second phone interview went pretty badly, which attribute one part to me and one part to the interviewer. The interviewer was incredibly arrogant and stubborn. I was coming up with a solution that would have been the same time complexity, but more space than the solution the interviewer wanted. The interviewer kept telling me to abandon my solution instead of letting me explore it and forced me to try to think of the interviewer's solution instead. Never encountered an interviewer before that only wanted one solution even though the problem has like 4. I'm sure those kind of interviewers are out there, but this was just my first time encountering one. Overall, pretty bad and inexperienced interviewer that was hard to communicate with. On my part, maybe I was just too stupid to understand the one particular solution the interviewer wanted.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Leetcode questions/classic questions
      Answer question
      4

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      Software Engineer Interview

      13 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft (Toronto, ON) in May 2026

      Interview

      My experience wasn’t great with Lyft. During my system design interview, my interviewer kept silent most of the time. No communication, and he seems to end my interview session as soon as possible. Be careful about this

      Software Engineer Interview

      13 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Process is good. Not too exhaustive and they respond quickly. Recruiters are great too. I cleared all my interviews and I am in team matching since a very long time. Lyft does not give you an offer even after clearing interviews.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      LC medium. System design - medium level question. Product side system design
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      Software Engineer Interview

      12 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Lyft in Dec 2025

      Interview

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