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      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      21 Mar 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      HANDS DOWN THE WORST INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE!! The recruiter would email me and go AWOL for a week. Never called on time as had been planned earlier. The interviewers were all judgemental freaks who wanted to hear exactly one answer... this wasn't an interactive session at all. One guy was checking his phone throughout the interview - so unprofessional! Should have just walked at that point but I stuck it out anyway. Everybody seems to gloat over their culture, but have no idea what they're doing to grow in 2017. They don't even recognize Uber as a real competitor which is plain dumb. Anyway, this just wasn't for me! Even after the interview, the recruiter didn't bother reaching out and I had to ping them after a week and still no phone call...terrible, just terrible! I have 2 other offers in hand now, so, all in all, I'm glad this didn't work out.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design lyft referral system
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