Lyft·Software Engineer

Lyft Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I cleared the early phone screen, I ran into scheduling and communication issues that dragged the process out in a way that felt disrespectful.

The onsite scheduling link didn’t work, and every piece of back-and-forth with the recruiter took ages, causing repeated new links that still failed. It ended up taking about a month just to get something booked, and by the time I finally completed the multi-hour onsite interviews, the role was apparently already filled.

The bigger hit was the silence afterward. After reaching out repeatedly with no response, I only later learned the original position had been closed. It made the whole sequence feel like it didn’t actually map to an active hiring need.

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