Lyft·Data Scientist

Lyft Data Scientist interview experience

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Hard

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an in-person process that started with a weekend take-home.

They required me to create a presentation based on data they provided, and they gave me the weekend to complete it. I ended up spending the whole weekend on the task, and it was the kind of assignment that ate time quickly.

After that, I did another interview where I was asked to pseudo-code some complex SQL on a whiteboard, and I also had a standard behavioral interview. That mix of written preparation, then live SQL reasoning, then behavior made the experience feel demanding. It wasn’t just about answering questions—it was about demonstrating how I think under different constraints.

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