I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Lyft (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2024
Interview
Cordial and well planned, had 3 rounds but no offer. The coding interview was particularly difficult recommend practising the hard problems on leetcode. Session spread out over a few days made it bit easier to go thru the proccess
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A coding question from leetcode from the medium or hard category
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%
One on one interview: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 4%
Background check: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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