Lyft on-site interview tips

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Sep 25, 2020 3 Comments

I have Lyft on-site coming up in a week. Any tips for preparing sys design and CS fundamentals?

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    Sys design make sure you know scaling well (pros vs cons). I did well on System design and the interviewer was very interactive. Make sure you know your data modeling/schemas. CS fundamentals was pretty easy if you LC alot. My fundamentals was an interactive “implement this, okay now implement that” which resulted in 2 Leetcode Mediums and 1 Leetcode Easy in that one interview.

    For laptop test, make sure you focus on a correct solution, and not performance . My brain is stuck in the LC “do it best time complexity” mode, so I forced myself to code out a more complex solution which made me suffer a little in correctness (they continuesly tell you to focus on correctness and then performance after, listen to this advice!!!). If you need to search through an array to see if something exists, then do it, don’t try to hack together a dictionary solution. If you need to sort the array then do it.

    What level/org is this for?
    Sep 26, 2020 2