Lyft interview notes, page 4 of 10

“Blanked a little on this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Lyft, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started fine, built a trie-like nested map structure and the basic operations clicked pretty quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Lyft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the concept well enough to explain it but actually coding it up is a different story.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Lyft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to supply and demand levers, talked about surge multipliers, geographic zones, time-of-day patterns.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Lyft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Two questions in one, which I didn't fully appreciate until I was halfway through talking about surge multipliers and realized I hadn't even touched the experimentation side.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Lyft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to reach for a simple BFS and call it done.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Lyft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was basically a 45-minute gauntlet.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Lyft, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The product side felt manageable once I anchored on a specific patient segment, I went with non-emergency medical transport since it's a real pain point and Lyft already has some traction there.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Lyft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part I fumbled initially was jumping straight into segmentation without anchoring on what 'success' even means.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Lyft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by trying to define what a commuter actually needs versus a casual rider and that part felt okay.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Lyft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.