Lyft·Data Scientist

Lyft Data Scientist interview experience

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BerlinPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into Lyft with a live coding challenge that ended up being tougher than I expected.

The interviewer was friendly, but the challenge wasn’t easy, and the experience really highlighted that I needed to practice leetcode-style problem solving constantly to keep up.

It also felt like part of a broader, BigTech-style multi-step process, with several stages rather than one quick screen. One detail that made the call feel a bit unpleasant to me was that the interviewer hadn’t shared their video during the session.

In the end I didn’t move far enough to get an offer. The live coding portion was the piece that felt most defining—if I didn’t have the repetition down, I could feel

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