TECHNICAL TIPS:

The following is a non-exhaustive list of

CS fundamentals that may be included
in the interview:
● API designs
● cloud computing
● concurrency
● caching
● hashing
● layering

LYFT SWE WHAT TO EXPECT:

1. The call will last 1 hour: * The first
● recursion
● linked lists
● heaps

TECHNICAL minutes will be short to know more

about your experience, and the next 45
● binary trees
● basic graph searches.
minutes will be in Coderpad

PHONE 2. Interview style is highly technical and

focused on coding.

SCREEN
3. Back-end interviews are based on CS
fundamentals..
4. You have to reach a solution to the
Be ready and prepare for your problem (you'll be expected to have a
working solution with the code running
interview! by the end of the session).
HOW YOU WILL BE
EVALUATED:
1. Correctness - Your code should be able
to successfully run within coderpad and
solve the given problem.
2. Performance - Keep performance in
mind for proposed solutions. Be ready
to analyze the time and space
complexity of your solutions. *Tip: Do
not wait until the end to Debug.
3. Clean Code - Your code should be well
decomposed and written with good
variable names. The goal is that your
interview can easily understand the
code you’re writing (ie looking at code
structure and organization, ensuring
good basic syntax, is code easy to read,
etc).
4. Verbal communication and
collaboration will be really important,
as this gives us insight into how you
work with your team to find a solution!
Make sure to ask clarifying questions,
ask for feedback, take the feedback,
and be able to implement changes.
Take some time to think about what
you like about Lyft's product, our fun-
loving and exciting culture means
everything to us; make sure you’re able
to match that because first impressions
mean a lot!
PRACTICE PROBLEMS: Browse our engineering blog. and come
with insightful, curious questions about
Highly encouraged to try:
our product and teams.
1. https://leetcode.com/problems/asteroid-
collision/
Before you interview ask yourself,
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/number-
“Why Lyft?” - We are looking for
of-islands/
3. https://leetcode.com/problems/lru- Engineers that are just as passionate as
cache/ our team members.
4. https://leetcode.com/problems/word-
search/
Good Luck!
5. https://leetcode.com/problems/trapping
-rain-water/
Practice your technical interview with
a mock-up interview
Additional Resources:
1. https://leetcode.com/problemset/all/
2. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
3. https://www.hackerrank.com/dashboard