Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Lyft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lyft overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lyft as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft in Oct 2025
Interview
After submitting the application online, I recieved email from Lyft that required me to answer some questions. Then, recieved an invitation to a byteboard interview. The byteboard interview consists of two parts. First part is reading a document and add your comments. Second part is implementation of a program related to the first part.
I applied online. I interviewed at Lyft in Oct 2024
Interview
I did interview for the mobile internship. The recruiter contacted me for my detailed informations and sent Byteboard interview invitation. It was really fun but did not get the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were questions both frontend, backend combined in the Byteboard interview. What kind of system can you implement in here?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Lyft (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2024
Interview
3 Stages: 1 OA, 1 Technical (general), 1 Technical (Domain Specific). Did all 3, thought it went well but then after 2 weeks of silence I got the rejection. HR gave little to no feedback. Nobody from the actual team (the team that I would be working on) interviewed me, it was other SDEs from different teams. Make sure to ask questions about how the final interview will be structured