Lyft

SWE Intern Interview Experience

November 17, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process included a Byteboard interview, followed by two coding interviews.

The Byteboard interview was very easy, while the coding interviews (conducted via screen share and phone) were rated as medium to hard.

The employees were nice, but the recruiter was slow to respond.

Questions

LeetCode-type interview -- pretty standard algorithm stuff.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Lyft SWE Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Lyft's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

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

Lyft Work Experiences

Good place to work as an intern

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Good mentorship was provided here.

Cons: No fun activities planned for interns.

Good place to work as an intern

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Good mentorship was provided here.

Cons: No fun activities planned for interns.

Great Team, Risky Leadership

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great teammates and awesome manager.

Cons: Layoffs and change in leadership

Great Team, Risky Leadership

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great teammates and awesome manager.

Cons: Layoffs and change in leadership

Great Team, Confusing Metrics

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Great team and flexibility in remote work.

Cons: - Conflicting internal business metrics

Great Team, Confusing Metrics

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Great team and flexibility in remote work.

Cons: - Conflicting internal business metrics

Good place to work as an intern

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Good mentorship was provided here.

Cons: No fun activities planned for interns.

3.0
Good place to work as an intern
SWE Intern • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
June 12, 2021
Pros: Good mentorship was provided here.
Cons: No fun activities planned for interns.

Great Team, Risky Leadership

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great teammates and awesome manager.

Cons: Layoffs and change in leadership

5.0
Great Team, Risky Leadership
SWE Intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
July 22, 2023
Pros: Great teammates and awesome manager.
Cons: Layoffs and change in leadership

Great Team, Confusing Metrics

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Great team and flexibility in remote work.

Cons: - Conflicting internal business metrics

4.0
Great Team, Confusing Metrics
SWE Intern • Former Employee
May 22, 2022
Pros: Great team and flexibility in remote work.
Cons: - Conflicting internal business metrics

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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