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LyftSoftware Engineer T3 · L3“The process wasn’t as long as I expected. My onsite was supposed to be four rounds, but they cut it to just two, and one of them was a time-based key value store with delete at a specific timestamp given in the full spec up front.”
LyftProduct Manager · L6“Pretty standard interview process - the recruiter was very nice and collected information, and guided me through the expectations for the interview. The sense and execution interviews were also pretty standard - interviewers help you along if you get stuck. I had to answer some questions related to Lyft as well as a spotify question.”
LyftProduct Manager · L3“Overall it was fine, I think the final round left a sour taste in my mouth. It was supposed to be 4 interviews, 2 back to back and then the following the next day. I had 1 interview of the 2 during the day. Interviewer said it had to be rescheduled, then a couple hours later I received a note that said "As a result of the feedback you received, we are going to cancel your following interviews, ty. for interviewing with lyft"”
LyftProduct Manager · L4“The process was very easy. The questions were not difficult but I didn't have a strong delivery of my answers as I didn't prepare a strong STAR approach.”
LyftProduct Manager“It was a 45 min interview with the hiring manager. He spent the first half talking through behaviorals, the second walking me through a case”
LyftSoftware Engineer · L5“Started with background discussion. Interviewer asked about a specific project i mentioned on the resume and dug into details. As for the coding challenge, I was given an existing package which contained an API for reading 4 bytes of data at a type from a file. To read 10 bytes, we had to call this underlying API 3 times to get 12 bytes, respond back with the requested 10 bytes, and keep the extra 2 bytes of data in memory for future calls. I solved this with a queue-based implementation, handling edge cases around reaching the end of the file. Got follow-up questions related to handling API call failures, retries, and streaming the output.”
LyftMachine Learning Engineer · L4“It was more or less what I expected. ”
LyftSenior Product Manager · L4“The process is smooth. The recruiter was responsive. The interviewers are friendly. I went through the recruiter screening and the first round of products sense interview. The interviews were conducted remotely.”
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AnthropicSoftware Engineer, Safeguards · L5“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
NetflixEngineering Manager, Tooling“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
