I interviewed with a recruiter last fall. Since I was graduating in eight months, she said she'd talk to the hiring manager about whether to send technical interviews now or hold off for different openings in the future, and would get back to me in a few days. She never followed up and didn't respond to my emails. Eventually, I got an automated rejection, the subject line literally read "Update on [insert job title]," they hadn't even bothered to fill in the job title. The whole process felt unprofessional.
Easy interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Lyft in Jan 2019
Interview
The process was quick and efficient. I applied to an internship position online and heard back pretty quickly from a recruiter. Next steps were a technical phone interview and then a take home exercise to complete within 24 hours. Unfortunately I did not proceed to further steps . Technical interview was very easy and take home exam was a standard prediction problem.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Basic statistics and probability: Find expectations of a random variable with basic distribution. How would you construct a confidence interval? How would you estimate a probability of ordering a ride? What assumptions do you need in order to estimate this probability?
Basic optimization questions: What optimization techniques ares you familiar with and how do they basically work? How would you find the optimal price given a linear demand function? take a derivative of a quadratic function.
“I completed all interview rounds — including HR, technical screening, product sense, business case, algorithm live coding, decisions live coding, machine learning, and experience interviews — but the company ultimately selected another candidate
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have a good understanding of stats/probabilities/ML/Coding(SQL,Python), and business domain and metrics.
