I recently had an phone screening with Lyft. I completely solved the coding challenge. I did stumble couple of times, but quickly fixed everything. Finished 10 min before the end of the interview. Everything was working with unit tests. The interviewer confirmed. Later the recruiter told me to GTFO. What went wrong?
What position??
They don't give ang feedback? Try to dig for more.
The recruiter said that they go with another candidate...
Going with another candidate just means someone else beat you out. It doesn't mean you were "bad" or did anything wrong.
Can you tell us the difficulty level of questions?was it typical LC stuff?
LC medium
Oh okay that was unfortunate.. it does sound like the interview went well. Mine was similar and I got called for onsite. Tell the recruiter what happened and ask if you can interview with another team.
My Lyft phone screen was the count the number of islands problem. (Boolean matrix and DFS)
Maybe it became clear you weren’t an urm. We only hire urms now.
What's urm?
I suspect that the interviewer may have thought that you knew the solution beforehand and he was not able to assess how you go about solving a new problem. Also the fact that you did not come clean must have pissed him off.
Got the feedback from recruiter. The interviewer did not like the "methodology" and the speed at which I produced.
Methodology? Wtf lol...
Is it because of your background?
I don't know. The were well aware of my background before the interview. The coding screening did not bring any new data.
Something is missing in this story. Hard to guess what from this side though. It could be something that the interviewer noticed about you and decided not to go forward.
The code was production ready. Modular and nothing hard-coded. I made couple of small bugs, which I myself caught during unit tests, debugged using println in coderpad and fixed quickly. Can it be the language I used?
Like i said, hard to know from your side. But I saw the other comment you mentioned. So it might be that you did not meet their expectation. Interviewing is a crapshoot anyway, lots of interviews where I thought I nailed it but got rejected later. I hope that the experience was not bad at least. Good luck with everything!
You gotta be on time. How can they hire you for being early to a ride?