Lyft interview notes, page 9 of 10

“Took me a second to get oriented because I kept thinking about it from the rider side first.” 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 jump straight into supply-side explanations like driver ETAs getting worse, but I caught myself and slowed down to segment the 5% first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“This kind of question looks easy and then you open your mouth and realize you have no idea where to start.” 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.

“This one sprawled in every direction.” The rest of the author's notes on AI 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.

“My first instinct was to just say 'add parental controls and a kid-friendly UI' which is...” 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.

“I spent probably too long on the setup before getting to an actual recommendation.” 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.

“This question is basically a whole system design interview wrapped into one prompt.” 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.

“I started with time-based decomposition, which felt right, but I jumped to conclusions too fast about what segment was responsible before actually checking the data.” 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.

“This is not a question you can grind leetcode for.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Lyft, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to demand density and started rattling off places like Caltrain stations and the Stanford campus.” 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.