Lyft·Data Scientist

Lyft Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a full-day remote interview that involved talking with multiple members of the technical team.

The format included virtual whiteboard explanations where I had to walk through what machine learning systems I’d build to solve made-up problems.

It was more engineering-focused than purely theoretical, and it also included a coding test. The day felt like it was designed to see whether I could connect modeling ideas to practical system thinking, while still being able to write code. I didn’t get an offer, but the experience had a clear throughline: this role valued applied problem-solving. My main takeaway was that it wasn’t enough to know concepts—you had to be able to explain the build

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