Lyft·Data Scientist

Lyft Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Lyft data scientist process started with a virtual interview focused on general problems.

A few days later I was given a homework assignment with three days to finish it. It was structured like a mini project, and I also had to write a short essay as part of the submission.

After the homework, I had two back-to-back sessions that combined coding and business problem solving. The pace was intense but manageable—each block ran for about an hour. Overall, the sequence felt like it was designed to test both how I think through real business constraints and how I handle implementation, and the takeaway was that the process wasn’t just one type of challenge. It was a full stack of

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