J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Lyft (San Francisco, CA) en juill. 2017
Entretien
If you know silicon valley culture, are apprised of Lyft's history, and have strong experience in intellectually stimulating and high intensity work, you'll have a great interview experience.
I was referred through an employee. From there, a recruiter reached out to me to do a phone interview. Very cursory and normal behavioral.
After, they invited me for an on-site with 2 product managers on the team I would be potentially joining. My recruiter got back to me next day inviting me for a final round that included a presentation. I had travel plans already, and they worked around that without issue.
I made my presentation with a team of senior product managers (including the previous 2 I interviewed with). After the presentation, I had 3 rounds of one on one interviews: Director of Product, engineering manager, and new product manager in the special projects area. They called me back about a week later with an offer.
Most questions were focused on previous experience, and I had plenty of anecdotes share because my work experience has been quite broad in the finance (hedge funds) and tech start up space. Out of the 7 interviewers I had, I would say only one was someone I didn't enjoy as much, and that was only because the interview questions were far outside of the scope of the team I was interviewing for.
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 1
If Lyft were to get into the parking business, what would you do?
J'ai passé un entretien chez Lyft (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
the interview process was multiple steps: recruiter screen, hiring manager, round 1 product sense / execution, then round 2 leadership. there are a lot of prep materials provided which made the process much better and smoother
Recruiter screen, then 45 min product sense, 45 min execution - repeat these rounds 2 times, then hiring manager screen, then offer. All remote interviews. Recruiter stays in touch throughout. Overall smooth process.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Lyft (Montréal, QC) en sept. 2025
Entretien
Rounds: 1) Recruiter 2) Hiring manager 3) Product Sense 4) Product execution 5) Cross-functional partnership 6) Leadership
Recruiter was extremely personable and was good at marketing the company and its values. Same with the hiring manager. For the PMs or TPMs interviewing you, it's a bit of a gamble as to whether they'll be there to scrutinize you or to have a back-and-forth. They do read off a script to ensure they cover their bases, but some interviewers will facilitate and have better conversations while others are really examining you and not helping you. It's a bit unfortunate as we'd expect PMs to challenge each other and confirm/deny assumptions.
The process took 3 weeks. The recruiter provides documentation on how the interviews are conducted, with tips and documentation. They request the behavioural and technical interviews to be ideally condensed within a single meeting of 3 hours, which is exhausting. Intense process resembling FAANG's process considering the size of the company.
Questions d'entretien [4]
Question 1
During execution interview: Design a metrics dashboard for Spotify
During product sense interview: You're a PM for bikesharing. The company owns dockless bikes. We notice a high number of improperly parked bikes. Resolve the challenge.