Lyft·Data Scientist

Lyft Data Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I reached out through LinkedIn and was contacted by a recruiter, then I scheduled a video call a couple weeks later.

That call turned into a case study discussion for about 45 minutes, starting with quick introductions and then moving into a question they shared via a link along with data attributes.

The case study prompt was very vague, and it wasted time because I had to spend a lot of effort clarifying what the question even meant and what it wanted me to define. If I understood their business context, it was simpler, but the vagueness still forced extra thinking just to get unstuck. The interviewer felt a bit arrogant—if I couldn’t answer quickly, they’d jump in and give away the answer. On top of

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