Lyft·Software Engineer

Lyft Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with an online assessment, then quickly escalated into a full set of interviews.

I went through two separate coding interviews, each with software engineers, followed by a system design interview. After that came a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.

The coding part leaned on LeetCode-style problems, and there was also an additional design-focused prompt that felt more like a guided engineering scenario than a purely abstract exercise. The system design component tested how I structured tradeoffs and approached building something beyond the surface level.

The behavioral interview was the most restrictive part of the loop—it felt strict and structured, with

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