First a phone chat, then a screen, then a 6-hour take-home assignment, then a 5-interview onsite panel of mostly whiteboard statistics and algorithms exercises. The former 3 were fine, the onsite was unpleasant. I was not given an offer, but I would not have gone to Lyft had I been given one, anyway. A few of the people I met at Lyft seemed really great. But the rest, not so much. I was interviewed by one of the most abrasive and unpleasant people I've met in a long time. Thinking back, the degree to which he challenged everything I said, often with incorrect views of his own or nonsensical objections (e.g. challenging my dislike of the Uber "image" as compared to Lyft), was mind-boggling -- I can't imagine what it would be like to work with this guy. My overall feeling of the interviews was that there was a "right answer" to nearly every question, and they did not have any room to entertain even perfectly-viable alternatives. In addition, they were looking for people who would fit right in to a specific role from day 1: more of a big-company approach than a small-company one.