Lyft·Software Engineer

Lyft Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

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United StatesPosted Aug 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter reached out to me to schedule a technical phone interview, which was described as a one-hour block focused on coding questions.

After that, the next step would be onsite interviews if I passed—those would include more coding alongside systems design topics and project-style questions.

Even though my journey didn’t end with an offer in what I recorded, the structure was clear: phone screen first, then an onsite that mixed implementation with higher-level design and project thinking.

The difficulty felt on the harder side for me, and I never made it all the way through to the onsite portion described in the process. What I remember most is how the recruiter framed the progression—pass the hour-long coding screen, and

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