Lyft·Software Engineer

Lyft Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The coding round I had revolved around parsing a command string.

The input varied: sometimes it was just commands, other times it included key-value pairs, and sometimes it combined a command with an associated value. The task also required writing test cases for my solution.

I got the suggestion that writing tests directly instead of faking them would be better, but I still struggled with parsing the input and then getting the tests to run. I ended up not being able to execute the tests successfully.

The interviewer stopped me at the scheduled time without giving extra minutes. I didn’t receive an offer, and the experience was mainly defined by the

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