I had an initial phone screen with the recruiter, which went well. He went over the details of the role, asked me basic questions about my background. Then I had a phone screen with the manager of the overall department the role was in. That went well also, again, basic background questions and giving deeper dive into the role itself.
I was then asked to complete a homework assignment with a mock project where they basically wanted to see my thought process and how I approached issues. This was a little concerning as the assignment assumed you knew A LOT about Lyft internal processes and department structure. Which you can research and learn a little but only so much. But I obviously did well enough because I was invited to come on site for an almost half day interview - 2 small group interviews, followed by a giving a presentation (again, a mock project assuming you know a lot about Lyft internal processes) to a larger group, followed by one more small group interview.
The recruiters and HR assistants were really welcoming and thoughtful - there were snacks and a nice note, and I was give a quick tour. The HR/recruiting onsite is what kept me from rating this experience completely negatively. The interviews themselves were kind of uncomfortable and perhaps that was just me not being a good fit for the team, but I felt right off the bat like a few of the team members just decided when they saw me that I wasn’t what they were looking for and they were fairly disengaged during the process. Some people on the remote side (many people were on video in San Francisco) didn’t even engage or ask questions at all. I was raked over the coals about things that were internal to Lyft that I would have no way of knowing prior to putting my presentation together - for instance, I was asked many times about why I said I would build extra time into my plans (because that’s how I’ve done it in my 10 years of project management) but they beat that like a dead horse and I was told Lyft moves way too fast for extra time. I responded that I understood and would adapt to that but they pretty much wrote me off after that. I also experienced one team member rolling her eyes at one of my answers.
I knew when I left I wasn’t getting the job. When I got the email a week or so later confirming, I responded and asked for feedback and never heard back.
So essentially, HR= B+. The rest of the interviewers = C-.