Lyft Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had a two-hour assessment where I analyzed a document, wrote comments on it, and then completed a small task using Xcode. The last technical stage was a video coding interview where I used my preferred language and worked through data-structures problems.

Across the whole journey, the difficulty felt high and deliberately time-consuming. The written prompts weren’t just resume questions—they required real thought and articulation—then the assessment shifted into a more “work-like” mode with document review and implementation. The video coding portion was the capstone, and it