Lyft

Frontend Engineer Interview Experience

November 8, 2018

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Phone screen followed by a 6-hour on-site interview (including a 1-hour lunch break). Overall, it was a positive experience. The questions challenged both frontend domain knowledge and algorithmic ability. A good preparation strategy might involve using Pramp.com for live coding practice. The interview challenges the ability to come up with a working solution quickly.

Questions

Phone screen in a collaborative code editor, live coding during the on-site on a laptop, focusing on practical development knowledge and application.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Lyft Frontend Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Lyft's interview process for their Frontend Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Lyft's Frontend Engineer interview process in United States.

Lyft Work Experiences

Great team of smart engineers with no downsides

Frontend Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: The company was amazing. I joined a team of eight frontend engineers, all of whom were super smart and kind people. I learned a lot from them.

Cons: There were no cons. I was super lucky.

Great team of smart engineers with no downsides

Frontend Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: The company was amazing. I joined a team of eight frontend engineers, all of whom were super smart and kind people. I learned a lot from them.

Cons: There were no cons. I was super lucky.

Interesting Work, Hiring Questionable

Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Good career opportunities for those who are after that. Some projects are really interesting and meaningful.

Cons: No relocation opportunities, questionable hiring and promotion policy.

Interesting Work, Hiring Questionable

Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Good career opportunities for those who are after that. Some projects are really interesting and meaningful.

Cons: No relocation opportunities, questionable hiring and promotion policy.

Good place

Senior QA Engineer • Current Employee

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Pros: Very good place to work.

Cons: Unstable leadership, many changes all the time.

Senior QA Engineer • Current Employee

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Pros: Very good place to work.

Cons: Unstable leadership, many changes all the time.

Great team of smart engineers with no downsides

Frontend Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: The company was amazing. I joined a team of eight frontend engineers, all of whom were super smart and kind people. I learned a lot from them.

Cons: There were no cons. I was super lucky.

5.0
Great team of smart engineers with no downsides
Frontend Engineer • Former Employee
Minsk
July 28, 2026
Pros: The company was amazing. I joined a team of eight frontend engineers, all of whom were super smart and kind people. I learned a lot from them.
Cons: There were no cons. I was super lucky.

Interesting Work, Hiring Questionable

Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Good career opportunities for those who are after that. Some projects are really interesting and meaningful.

Cons: No relocation opportunities, questionable hiring and promotion policy.

4.0
Interesting Work, Hiring Questionable
Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee
Minsk, Belarus
July 9, 2021
Pros: Good career opportunities for those who are after that. Some projects are really interesting and meaningful.
Cons: No relocation opportunities, questionable hiring and promotion policy.

Good place

Senior QA Engineer • Current Employee

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Pros: Very good place to work.

Cons: Unstable leadership, many changes all the time.

4.0
Good place
Senior QA Engineer • Current Employee
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
April 20, 2023
Pros: Very good place to work.
Cons: Unstable leadership, many changes all the time.

Lyft Interview Questions

Rotting Oranges

You are given a grid of oranges, some fresh, some rotten. Rotten oranges contaminate adjacent fresh oranges; find the minimum time until all oranges are rotten.

Time Based Key-Value Store

Design a key-value store that supports storing values with timestamps. You should be able to retrieve the latest value for a key that's less than or equal to a given timestamp.

ArraysBinary Search

Read N Characters Given read4 II - Call Multiple Times

Implement a function to read characters from a file using a provided read4 API, but the read function can be called multiple times, so you need to handle internal buffering.

ArraysTwo Pointers

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