I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I had an initial phone interview where the interviewer started off asking about myself and briefly described this team and what he's working on at Lyft. We then jumped onto a coding exercise on Coderpad, he explained the question and as I am progressing he added more add on questions. I got an email from recruiter 2 days later that they want me to invite for an onsite at their SF office. Had four rounds of interview at onsite in which one of the round was coding exercise on my laptop (interviewer gave me a question on a paper), 2 rounds of system design questions and 1 personality/experience kind of interview. Overall I would say I had a good experience, all the interviewers were nice and
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Medium leetcode question in phone interview
2. Design whatsapp like service
I applied online. I interviewed at Lyft (Ciudad de Mexico) in May 2026
Interview
Solo llegue al challenge que es leet code hard de los mas comunes es una ventana de desplazamiento esta protectorado con un humano.
El screening es bastante especifico y se hace con recruiter validan ingles y que des ejemplos de proyectos de sistemas distribuidos en tu haber.
El problema con los leetcode es que dejan de lado a los candidatos neurodivergentes que piensan en profundidad.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in May 2026
Interview
the process is pretty straightforward. first recruiter screen, tech screen, and then onsite (system design, behavioral, and laptop). you may or may not meet the manager of the team you are interviewing for during the onsite behavioral. the laptop round is basically OOD.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tech screen is leetcode specific, system design is OOD related, and behavioral has bunch of questions instead of talking about one specific projects.
I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft
Interview
TERRIBLE! Kept getting postponed. It was postponed like 5 times and then they sent a rejection email very quickly. This is by far the worst interview experience I have ever had. I am really disappointed and DO NOT recommend wasting your time on this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about how you handled a production bug you caused
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Lyft with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 24 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lyft overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lyft as a Senior Software Engineer according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Presentation: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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